EUROPE: RIU Hotels & Resorts has signed an agreement with TIRME, Mallorca Environmental Technology Park, ensuring all of its hotels on the Balearic Islands are supplied with locally sourced renewable electricity.
RIU Hotels is the first hotel chain to sign an agreement like this with TIRME, ensuring that all its electricity will exclusively come from renewable sources generated in the local area. The partnership will begin this year until 2027.
The agreement will supply the five RIU hotels in Majorca, its hotel in Formentera and its corporate offices located in Playa de Palma.
RIU Hotels and Resorts was founded in Mallorca, Spain in 1953 and is still run by the Riu family.
The hotels in the portfolio specialise in holiday accommodation and more than 78 per cent of the group’s establishments offer the All Inclusive by RIU service.
Since 2022 RIU has had a certified renewable electricity supply in twelve countries, which represent more than half of its destinations and over the last three years the hotel chain emissions per stay have been reduced by 64 per cent (scopes 1 and 2).
The hotel group also installed photovoltaic solar panels in 22 of its hotels, including more than 2,000 solar panels at its two resorts in Mauritius.
We also reported earlier this year that the group was collaborating with two local NGOs in Mauritius as part of its Proudly Committed sustainability strategy.
The hotel group is partnering with the Coral Garden Conservation(CGC) and Adolescent Non-Formal Education Network (ANFEN) to have a positive impact on the local environment and community by promoting ecological restoration and social inclusion.
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RIU Hotels to increase marine biodiversity with “coral gardeners” in Mauritius