Press Release: RIU Hotels & Resorts
July 15, 2002
MALLORCA -- RIU Hotels & Resorts (www.riu.com) will be present in eleven countries around the world from November
with the opening of two establishments in Morocco, on the coast of Agadir.
It is then that RIU will open the 4-star, Riu Tikida Beach and the neighbouring ClubHotel Riu Tikida Dunas, both
with ample gardens.
With these additions to the group, RIU will add Morocco to ten other countries around the world - Spain, Portugal,
the Dominican Republic, Cuba, the United States, Mexico, Jamaica, Tunisia, Bulgaria and Cyprus.
In addition, 2003 will see the opening of RIU's first establishment in another country - the African archipelago
of Cap Verde.
At present, RIU runs 96 establishments and employs 12,500 people, and welcomes 1.5 million guests every year.
The group specialises in beach holidays and has done since it was established in Mallorca in 1953.