Luis Riu Bertran dating history

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Luis Riu Bertrán (20 March 1933 – 7 April 1998) was a Spanish hotelier and businessman, co-founder of the RIU Hotels & Resorts chain alongside his father, Juan Riu Masmitjà. In 1953, they purchased the Hotel San Francisco in Playa de Palma, Mallorca. The following year, in 1954, they partnered with the German travel agency Doktor Tigges-Fahrten to organize what contemporary sources describe as Spain’s first charter flight for package tourism. In 1977 the group constituted Riu Hotels S.A. as a joint company for hotel real-estate investment and construction, with a 51% stake held by the Riu family and 49% by TUI. In 1993 RIU and TUI created the hotel management company RIUSA II, S.A., owned 50:50 by both partners, to manage RIU-branded hotels worldwide. At the time of his death in 1998, the RIU group managed 62 hotels. In 1993 he received the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Government of Catalonia.