The hotel Riu Palace Maspalomas, by the dune park of Maspalomas, in the south of Gran Canaria, has been chosen the "best holiday hotel in the world" in the competition TUI-Holly 1999, in which 10,000 hotels have competed to be in the list of the best 100. The winning hotel, like all those in the
RIU chain, is managed by a tandem formed by a production director and a guest director who administer the establishment with equal professional capacity working as a team. The chain has at present 84 hotels shared around 10 countries and foresees reaching 100 hotels in 2001.