After this transaction, that also includes two hotels in development in Mexico and Senegal, RIU Group will hold 100% of the ownership of the properties
RIU is reopening in Cape Verde, on Sal Island to be precise, following several months of closure, by launching its new hotel, Riu Palace Santa Maria.
Riu Dubai, Nakheel's 800-room joint venture with Spain's RIU Hotels & Resorts, is set to open in December 2020, bringing a new hospitality concept to Dubai and marking the 100th RIU establishment worldwide.
RIU has just opened the luxury hotel Riu Palace Maldivas, on 17 August. But that is not the only hotel that the chain has reopened in the Indian Ocean region, because it joins the hotel Riu Sri Lanka, which was the first to open in July, and Riu Creole in Mauritius, which reopened on 12 August.
RIU Hotels & Resorts and its partner Tikida Group are reopening two of their hotels in Morocco: Riu Palace Tikida Taghazout which opened on 10 July, and Riu Tikida Dunas which opened on 12 July.
Following the suspension of tourism due to COVID-19, the Spanish chain is returning to operation in 16 of the 19 countries where it has hotels
From 15 July to the first week of July, the chain will reopen in Madrid, the Balearic Islands, Andalusia and the Canary Islands - Following the closure of all its hotels worldwide, the chain is gradually restarting operations around the world, with 50 hotels open or about to open in 15 countries
The opening of the Riu Ocho Rios is RIU's second in the Caribbean, following the reopening of the Riu Cancun on 8 June, and it joins a long list of openings around the world that the chain has already announced for coming weeks.
After the total closure of all their establishments during the month of March, the first two hotels of the chain will open on May 25th. They will be the first to apply the new RIU Manual for Post-COVID hotels
The new design is part of the modernisation project the hotel chain began in 2010 with the new style and new services it is introducing in its new projects and hotel renovations