RIU Hotels

RIU Hotels & Resorts is a Spanish hotel chain founded by the Riu family as a small holiday firm in 1953. It was founded in Mallorca, Spain, and is currently 49% owned by TUI and run by the third generation of the family. The company's business is focused on the holiday hotel sector and over 70% of its establishments offer an all-inclusive service.

RIU Hotels
TypePublic
IndustryTourism industry
Founded1953
HeadquartersMallorca, Spain
Number of locations
103[1] (2022)
Key people
Carmen Riu, Luis Riu
ProductsRiu Hotel, Riu ClubHotel, Riu Palace, Riu Plaza
Revenue
  • €2.24 billion (2019)[2]
  • €2.114 billion (2018)[3]
Number of employees
31,270[2] (2019)
Websiteriu.com
Footnotes / references
clients: 4 million (2015)

With the opening of its first city hotel in 2010, RIU extended its range of products with its own line of city hotels called Riu Plaza. RIU's press dossier for the year 2020 reported that it had 98 locations in 19 countries (apart from the planned RIU Plaza in London), 31,270 employees, and 4.9 million customers.[2]

Photo of a Riu property

History

RIU Hotels & Resorts is a Spanish[4] hotel chain founded by the Riu family as a small holiday firm in 1953, the first hotel being Riu San Francisco in Mallorca.[4][5] The RIU Hotels & Resorts chain is still run by the Riu family's third generation.[5]

In 2011, RIU Hotels & Resorts launched their new line of Riu Plaza city hotels. These are located in the centre of large cities and cater for both business travelers and tourists. RIU has hotels in Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, United States, Mexico, Jamaica, Bahamas, Aruba, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Cape Verde, Mauritius, St. Martin and Sri Lanka (2016).[6]

It is the 30th largest hotel chain in the world according to Hotels magazine's 2014 ranking.[7]

Locations

Europe

Germany: (1)

Ireland: (1)

Portugal: (1)

Spain: (27)

  • Hotel RIU Chiclana (Cadiz, Spain)
  • Hotel RIU Calypso, Hotel RIU Oliva Beach Resort, Hotel RIU PALACE Jandia, Hotel RIU PALACE Tres Islas (Fuerteventura, Spain)
  • Hotel RIU La Mola (Formentera, Spain)
  • Hotel RIU Gran Canaria, Hotel RIU PALACE Maspalomas, Hotel RIU PALACE Meloneras, Hotel RIU PALACE Oasis, Hotel RIU PALACE Palmeras, Hotel RIU Papayas, Hotel RIU Vistamar (Gran Canaria, Spain)
  • Hotel RIU Paraiso (Lanzarote, Spain)
  • Hotel RIU PLAZA Espana (Madrid, Spain)
  • Hotel RIU Monica, Hotel RIU Costa del Sol, Hotel RIU Nautilus (Malaga, Spain)
  • Hotel RIU Bravo, Hotel RIU Concordia, Hotel RIU Festival, Hotel RIU Playa Park, Hotel RIU San Francisco (Mallorca, Spain)
  • Hotel RIU PALACE Tenerife, Hotel RIU Garoe, Hotel RIU Buenavista, Hotel RIU Arecas (Tenerife, Spain)

United Kingdom: (1)

Africa

Cape Verde: (6)

  • Hotel RIU PALACE Boavista, Hotel RIU Tuareg, Hotel RIU Karamboa (Boa Vista, Cape Verde)
  • Hotel RIU PALACE Santa Maria, Hotel RIU Cabo Verde, Hotel RIU Funana (Sal, Cape Verde)

Mauritius: (2)

Morocco: (6)

  • Hotel RIU PALACE Tikida Agadir, Hotel RIU PALACE Tikida Taghazout, Hotel RIU Tikida Beach, Hotel RIU Tikida Dunas (Agadir, Morocco)
  • Hotel RIU Tikida Garden, Hotel RIU Tikida Palmeraie (Marrakech, Morocco)

Senegal: (1)

  • Hotel RIU Baobab (Pointe-Sarène, Senegal)

Tanzania: (2)

Asia

Maldives: (2)

Sri Lanka: (1)

United Arab Emirates: (1)

America

Aruba: (2)

  • Hotel RIU PALACE Antillas, Hotel RIU PALACE Aruba (Aruba-Palm Beach, Aruba)

Bahamas: (1)

Costa Rica: (2)

Dominican Republic: (6)

  • Hotel RIU PALACE Bavaro, Hotel RIU PALACE Macao, Hotel RIU PALACE Punta Cana, Hotel RIU Bambu, Hotel RIU Naiboa, Hotel Riu Republica (Punta Cana, Dominican Republic)

Jamaica: (6)

Mexico: (21)

  • Hotel RIU PALACE Costa Mujeres, Hotel RIU PALACE Las Americas, Hotel RIU PALACE Peninsula, Hotel RIU Latino, Hotel RIU Caribe, Hotel RIU Cancun, Hotel RIU Dunamar (Cancun, Mexico)
  • Hotel RIU PLAZA Guadalajara (Guadalajara, Mexico)
  • Hotel RIU PALACE Baja California, Hotel RIU PALACE Cabo San Lucas, Hotel RIU Santa Fe ((Los Cabos, Mexico)
  • Hotel RIU Emerald Bay (Mazatlan, Mexico)
  • Hotel RIU PALACE Mexico, Hotel RIU PALACE Riviera Maya, Hotel RIU Playacar, Hotel RIU Lupita, Hotel RIU Tequila, Hotel RIU Yucatan (Playa del Carmen, Mexico)
  • Hotel RIU PALACA Pacifico, Hotel RIU Vallarta, Hotel RIU Jalisco (Nayarit, Mexico)

Panama: (2)

United States: (4)



According to RIU's website, RIU operates 103 locations, of which 34 are in Spain and 21 in Mexico.[1]

Future locations

As of May 2022, six new locations are under construction:[8]

Former locations


References
  1. "World's Best Destinations – Reserve Hotel". riu.com. RIU Group. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  2. "Press Dossier 2020" (PDF). RIU Hotels & Resorts. Palma de Mallorca: RIU Group. 27 January 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020. The number of hotels and resorts exclude the planned RIU Plaza in London.
  3. "Press Dossier 2019" (PDF). RIU Hotels & Resorts (in Dutch). Palma de Mallorca: RIU Group. 13 March 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020. The number of hotels and resorts exclude the planned RIU Plaza in London.
  4. "Acerca de RIU – Historia de la Cadena RIU – Primer Hotel RIU". Riu.com. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  5. Archived 3 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Hotel Riu Plaza New York Times Square". The Daily Telegraph. London. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  7. "THE MORE THINGS CHANGE IN THE GLOBAL HOTEL INDUS- TRY, THE MORE THINGS STAY THE SAME IN HOTELS' ANNU- AL RANKING OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST HOTEL COMPANIES" (PDF). Marketingandtechnology.com. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  8. "New Openings!". riu.com. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
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