Hotel Riu Karamboa opens its doors in Boa Vista


All is in place for the grand opening of Hotel Riu Karamboa on the island of Boa Vista today. Various personalities disembarked at Boa Vista International Airport this morning to take part in the ceremony, which will have as its guest of honor Prime Minister José Maria Neves.


The Riu Karamboa is Cape Verde’s largest hotel, with a capacity to lodge nearly 2,000 guests in 750 rooms. Located along the beach, the Riu Karamboa will work on an “all included” basis and features four restaurants with Cape Verdean, African, Asian and European specialties, as well as bars, a night club, a gym, a hair salon and leisure and spa facilities.

The opening of this new hotel enterprise is expected to create some 1,000 job posts. The local population, however, is somewhat skeptical, considering the low wages many of the island’s hotels offer employees.

Meanwhile, a number of landowners dispossessed for the construction of the hotel were, as of yesterday afternoon, waiting for a response from the government regarding the compensation to be paid for the loss of their properties. Some had threatened to block the entrance to the airport with trucks and equipment.

Among the other guests invited to the grand opening of the hotel are Minister of the Economy Fátima Fialho, representatives of the Cape Verdean chamber of tourism, UNOTUR, and MpD leader Jorge Santos.


30 / 10 / 2008
In A Semanaonline