RIU will reopen 15 Spanish hotels before the first week of July, including in the Canaries and Balearics.
RIU is gradually restarting its operations globally, with 50 hotels across 15 countries either open or ready to resume operations. All hotels will follow new health and safety protocols to meet new Covid challenges.
It comes as Spain prepares to reopen its borders to overseas tourists on Sunday (June 21).
The first 15 RIU hotels to reopen are situated in Madrid, Majorca, Formentera, Cadiz, Malaga, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
RIU Bravo and Riu Concordia in Palma will be first, with RIU working with Tui and the Balearic government to support the island’s safe tourism test which got under way on Monday June 15.
In the Canaries, the first hotel to welcome back guests will be RIU Gran Canaria on 19 June; two of the chain’s hotels in Andalusia, RIU Chiclana and RIU Costa del Sol, as well as RIU La Mola in Playa de Migjorn on Formentera, will open the same day.
RIU Palace Meloneras in Gran Canaria and RIU Palace Tres in Fuerteventura will follow on 26 June; RIU Calypso Hotel (Fuerteventura) and RIU Paraiso Lanzarote on 1 July; and RIU Palaca Tenerife on 2 July.
RIU Palace Palmeras (Gran Canaria), RIU Arecas (Tenerife) and Riu Nautilus (Torremolinos) will follow “shortly after”.
