Riu will open three macro hotels this year in Cape Verde, New York and Senegal | Companies

Riu has already designed the strategy for this year after last year’s unprecedented collapse. In 2020, gross sales plummeted 60% to 826 million, as it has advanced Luis Riu, CEO of the company, in a post on his blog. Despite this, the hotel company opened its 100th establishment in Dubai in December and has announced three major openings for this year. “The year 2021 looks difficult, but we maintain some important projects that bring motivation and hope“, emphasizes Riu.

The first opening will be the Riu Palace Santa Maria, a macrohotel with 1,001 rooms in Cape Verde, an enclave that has not received tourism since March 2020. “This opening is more than willing to lead this recovery of activity, to recover our workers and try to reactivate the economy, that of real possibility of business, at least in the short term “, assures Riu. The other two new hotels will open in the second part of the year, as long as conditions allow them: in June the Riu Plaza Manhattan Times Square, after an intense reform and in December the opening of the Riu Baobab in Senegal is scheduled. In the medium term, Riu confirms that construction work on the chain’s future hotels in London and Toronto is still underway and will become a reality in 2023.

To the calendar of openings, the Balearic hotel company always joins one of reforms. In 2021 the works will focus on the Riu Palace Maspalomas. The CEO emphasizes that it is a hotel full of symbolism for the chain, “since it was the first Riu Palace when it opened in 1989, as well as a great source of pride for my father, Luis Riu Bertrán”.

Currently the company only has half of its hotels open (50 properties in 14 countries) and the other half are closed, either due to the end of the season or due to mobility restrictions, as happened last month in the Canary Islands, which forced the closure of hotels that were open.

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