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Royal Resorts®
Founded in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico in 1975, Royal Resorts® is a pioneer in the Mexican tourism industry and one of the world’s first vacation ownership companies.

The Royal Resorts story began in 1974 when Cancun was in its infancy. Several of the Royal Resorts developers visited the fledgling beach community which had been selected to be the site of Mexico’s first master-planned resort and what they saw convinced them of the area’s incredible potential as an international travel destination.

A year of planning ensued as the group created its own vision of vacation ownership, at a time when there were only six timeshare resorts in the world. They developed the concept of a private family club with fully equipped two-bedroom villas, varied resort amenities and a fixed time, fixed location interval ownership program. To this day, members of the resort choose the location of their villa and the week(s) that they would like to take their vacation and they return to the same villa at the same time every year, guaranteed.

In 1977, construction began on the company’s first resort, Club Internacional de Cancun®. Four more resorts followed: The Royal Mayan® in 1985, The Royal Caribbean® in 1988, The Royal Islander® in 1993 and The Royal Sands Resort & Spa® in 2000.

After Hurricane Wilma hit Cancun in October 2005, many hotels and resorts were forced to close for months for repairs. This was not the case at the Royal Resorts which withstood the fury of the storm; Club Internacional de Cancun never closed and after only one week of cleaning and minor repairs, the other four Royal Resorts were able to welcome visitors back.

In 2006, Royal Resorts opened its first resort in the Riviera Maya to the south of Cancun. The Royal Haciendas® is located in the Grand Coral beach and golf resort community, five minutes from Playa del Carmen. All the Mexican Caribbean Royal Resorts are beachfront properties and offer amenities ranging from pools, tennis courts, an activity program for adults and children, water sports, fitness centers and a spa to restaurants, bars, convenience stores, travel and car rental desks. An inter-resort shuttle connects the five Cancun resorts and gives guests the opportunity to enjoy the installations and activities available at all of them.

Over 60,000 member families from 51 countries choose to vacation at the Royal Resorts in the Mexican Caribbean every year. On average, 4,500 people stay at the six properties each week. A considerable number of members have been vacationing at the Royal Resorts for many years and have literally watched their children grow up at the resorts. Some have even decided to get married at one of the resorts or have become members themselves. In 1977, Royal Resorts was one of the first companies to become an affiliate of the Interval International resort exchange network and to offer its members an additional benefit, the opportunity to exchange their villa and stay in resorts all over the world.

Royal Resorts has received the Interval International Five Star Award every year since the award’s inception in 1984. Since 2008, its six resorts in the Mexican Caribbean have been classified as Premier Resorts in the new Interval International Resort Recognition Program, the highest distinction, awarded to properties that offer an exceptional vacation experience.

Members of the independent Timeshare User’s Group have also shown their preference for Royal Resorts by voting five of the Mexican Caribbean properties into the World’s Top Ten Resorts on the TUG website.

With a workforce of 3,000, Royal Resorts is one of the three largest companies in Cancun’s tourism sector.

Current Resorts

Cancun, Mexico

Club Internacional de Cancun (201 villas)

The Royal Mayan (200 villas)

The Royal Caribbean (207 villas)

The Royal Islander (179 villas)

The Royal Sands Resort & Spa (340 villas)

Riviera Maya, Mexico

The Royal Haciendas (252 villas)

Community Initiatives

Open Learning Royal Resorts is active in the field of adult education, providing on-the-job study opportunities for employees who were unable to finish high school, in addition to English and computer classes. It won the A.R.D.A. Ace Employer in 2002 and recognition from CONEVyT (the Mexican Council for Employee Education) in 2006 -2008 for its work and has been ranked number one in the state of Quintana Roo and one of the top 32 companies nationwide.

Sea Turtle Protection The Mexican Caribbean is one of the world’s most important nesting areas for green and loggerhead turtles and every summer biologists, tourist industry personnel, the military, NGO’s and volunteers join forces to protect these rare creatures. Royal Resorts is a pioneer in this statewide conservation campaign and has been participating since 1985.

Annual Charity Golf Tournament Royal Resorts also organizes the annual Elizabeth Norman Sutton Charity Golf Tournament for amateur lady golfers which takes place in Cancun in June. Inaugurated in 1998, in memory of Elizabeth Norman Sutton, the wife of one of the developers, this event supports worthy causes in the Cancun area. To date more than $340,000 US has been donated to local charities and institutions. The principal beneficiaries in recent years have been the Cancun General Hospital and Grupo Desafio de Quintana Roo A.C. Cancer Awareness Program.

References

Royal Creative, Thirty Royal Years, Royal Resorts: the Growth of a Pioneer Company in the Mexican Caribbean, 2007, Mexico City

Timeshare Users Group World's Top Ten Resorts (Timeshare User Group poll)

External links Royal Resorts official site

Royal Resorts Founded	1975 in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Headquarters	Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Industry	Hospitality, Tourism, Vacation Ownership

Products	Resorts

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