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January 8, 2018
Last December Blue Diamond Resorts celebrated its successes of 2017, at the Memories Miramar Habana Hotel, with a Social End of the Year Cocktail that was attended by tourism authorities of the Island, tour operators, travel agencies, specialized press and others professionals of the tourism... read more...
January 5, 2018
Russia, the world's largest country, bear Misha, matrioskas and World Cup 2018, has a bridge to Holguin since last December 25, when the airline Nordwind Airlines began charter flights between Moscow and the City parks. Thus, touching the track Frank País International Airport, the... read more...
January 1, 2018
MGM Muthu Hotels, based in Singapore, has incorporated a new 4-star establishment in Varadero (Cuba) to be called MGM Muthu Playa Varadero. It is its second hotel in the country, belongs to the Gran Caribe group and will be operated on an investment basis. It has 385 rooms on an all-inclusive... read more...
December 29, 2017
Extending operations and direct flights to Cuba is one of the next goals of the Turkish Airlines, said the company's executive director, Bilal Eksi. During a meeting with the Cuban ambassador in this country, Luis Alberto Amorós, Eksi expressed the commitment of his company with the... read more...
December 25, 2017
A total of 4,257,754 international visitors arrived in Cuba until November 2017, 19.7% more than in the same period of 2016, despite the damages suffered in hotel facilities and other services in the area after the passage of Hurricane Irma, according to data from the Ministry of Tourism... read more...
December 22, 2017
Royal Caribbean announced that it will double its trips to Cuba in 2018, with two cruise ships: Majesty of the Seas and Empress of the Seas. In addition, Royal Caribbean is adding two new destinations to the itineraries. The new Cuban ports of Santiago de Cuba and Cienfuegos on the southeast... read more...
December 18, 2017
Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts, a Singapore-based company that operates in well-known Asian destinations and has had two facilities in Mexico for eight years, will open its second hotel in Santa Maria Keyway next May and will be building another two in The beach resort of Varadero, Cuba. The... read more...
December 13, 2017
As a star of the national tourism industry, this destination of the center of Cuba dazzles both its beaches and hotels and extra hotel facilities that offer excellent opportunities for the current high season. The Greater Antilles maintains its position among the main Caribbean destinations. As... read more...
December 8, 2017
Cuba is becoming a tourist market of about one billion dollars for US airlines and cruise ships if the projections of 2017, 2018 and 2019 are added, according to the United States-Cuba Economic and Trade Council, EFE reports. According to a published study, cruise lines will accumulate more than... read more...
November 10, 2017
Regla Dayamí Armenteros, delegate of the Mintur in Villa Clara, said that in view of the celebration in the province of Villa Clara, Fitcuba 2018, the construction of 11 new hotels is planned. The start-up of ten hotels with 7,000 rooms in the keys of the northeast of Villa Clara, leaves... read more...
November 6, 2017
The new facilities, still under construction, confirm that Havana is one of the main tourist destinations in Cuba, a nation that received more than four million visitors in 2016. Hotel Prado and Malecón: as a kind of galleon that tries to sail all ties with all visitors who want to live... read more...
July 3, 2017
Cuba´s National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI by its Spanish acronym) reported recently that by the end of May, 284,556 Americans visited Cuba, same amount than in all 12 months of 2016, which means that this current year represents an step forward in the relationship... read more...
June 12, 2017
Last Wednesday afternoon was historical for the Cuban tourism with the official opening of the five-star plus hotel Manzana Kempinski just across from the Central Park and near the Capitol in Havana City. With the presence of Cuban minister of tourism Manuel Marrero and Markus Semer,... read more...
June 4, 2017
The well-known and largest online travel agency Expedia recently announced its expansion into the Cuban market, which will allow Cuban hoteliers to sell rooms through this plataform as well as allow travelers to book hotels in the island destination. This expansion will increase all the... read more...
June 1, 2017
Over 40 US companies and associations sent on Wednesday a letter addressed to President Donald Trump urging him to maintain and expand travel to Cuba, reported Prensa Latina News Agency. In a letter addressed to the US President entities like the American Society of Travel Agents and the... read more...
May 27, 2017
Cuba maintains its commitment to tourism and facilitates the investment of capital and foreign companies in the development of housing projects, which means taking steps forward towards the quality of the offer, with the entry of new operators and agreements With the companies that have a wide... read more...
February 23, 2017
The leadership of Azeri TEZ Tour Travel Agency, who works with Cuba, examined with Cuban Ambassador, Alfredo Nieves Portuondo, the promotion of Cuban tourism in this Caucasian nation. As stated by Nieves Portuondo, Cuba will be attending the forthcoming International Trade Fair in Baku, which... read more...
December 7, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump was looking at buying hotels in Cuba as recently as six months ago, according to a top Spanish hotel executive who learned of it from industry contacts. That would be at odds with Trump’s stated Cuba policy and could have violated U.S. law against promoting... read more...
October 23, 2016
About 20 percent of Mexican tourists who visit Cuba every year have used the services of the travel agency Taino Tours, according to Lazaro O''Reilly, general director of the firm. The agency, a leading group among tour operators, sends about 20,000 tourists of more than 100,000 who travel to... read more...
July 19, 2016
To date, Cuba has been visited by 53,748 cruise passengers during the first half of the year, representing 40,751 more passengers than in the same period last year, according to the Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero. In this sense the opening of the first line cruise travel between the US... read more...
July 7, 2016
On June 28 opened the Hotel Four Points by Sheraton, the first US hotel to operate in Cuba since 1959. The formerly known as the Hotel "Fifth Avenue" located in Miramar is one of two hotels Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide chain agreed to manage a multimillion-dollar agreement with... read more...
June 24, 2016
On June 13 the figure of 2 million foreign visitors, a remarkable event was reached and also 27 days earlier than in the same period last year, according to the Cuban Ministry of Tourism. The results demonstrate the positioning of the destination Cuba in the international market and the... read more...
April 10, 2016
The 60th Commission of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) for the Americas will meet between 3 and 4 May in Havana, to proclaim 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. Organized by UNWTO and the Ministry of Tourism of Cuba, the meeting will include in its... read more...
February 23, 2016
The Cuban specialist in tourism issues José Luis Perelló reported on February 13th in Havana only in Cuba last January received 417 764 visitors, which represents an increase of 12.7 percent over the same period the year precedent. "This implies good rate of increase for this... read more...
February 11, 2016
The Latinamerican company Copa Airlines has announced a new flight two times a week between Panama City and Holguin, in the eastern part of the island, begining next June 21st, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. "With this operation, Holguín becomes in the third destination in Cuba,... read more...
January 30, 2016
Cuba is looking for investors to help stimulate an unprecedented tourism boom after the country improved ties with the United States. The tourism industry, Cuba's second largest foreign revenue earner following the export of health services, has achieved a 17.4 percent rise in foreign visitors... read more...
January 7, 2016
Eric Peyre, AccorHotel’s Cuba head, says the company’s expansion plans are in anticipation of a wave of American tourists. The French hotel company will partner with Cuban tourism group Gaviota to open the 218-room hotel in Havana in 2018. The company presently operates a... read more...
December 24, 2015
The Caribbean island has received until November 2015, the number of 3 million 108 thousand 551 tourists, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics and Information (ONEI). This upward trend is mainly supported by the growing number of visitors to the island arrive via cruise ship, a... read more...
December 23, 2015
This year 2015, which is about to finish, has been very intense with the theme cruises, thanks to recent agreements that have been signed between shipping companies and the Ministry of Tourism of Cuba. This weekend will begin the cruise season on the island, during which it is expected to... read more...
December 16, 2015
The United States and Cuba are close to a deal on restoring regularly scheduled commercial flights, Cuban and American officials said Wednesday on the eve of the anniversary of detente between the Cold War foes. The diplomatic advance would help open the way for U.S. airlines to begin flying to... read more...
December 15, 2015
Favored among other reasons for its exceptional natural quality, Cuba will have in the future an extraordinary economic power, Romanian Ion Tiriac, businessman and ex famous player and manager of tennis. I arrived here and I have done as in my own country: look in the long term, 20 years and... read more...
December 3, 2015
With the official opening of the first stage of the Hotel Vista Azul, this resort, the most important in Cuba, increased by 470 rooms the accommodations for tourists. According to Mintur, Varadero will have 20,566 rooms for tourists by the end of this year, while the whole province of Matanzas... read more...
October 25, 2015
Tourist arrivals in Cuba totaled more than 2.6 million as of Sept. 30, with the island hitting the figure two months earlier than in 2014, the National Statistics and Information Office, or ONEI, said. Tourist arrivals during the first nine months of this year totaled 2.62 million, up by some... read more...
October 20, 2015
Cuba is not only Havana and Varadero, said the representative of Cuba''s Tourism Ministry, Pablo Vazquez while presenting in Ecuador the Island''s tourist offers. Vazquez, who is the Cuba's tourism representative for Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Central America, added that Cuba has 10... read more...
October 2, 2015
The first tourist destination in the Caribbean and the second vacation venue of choice for Canadian tourists represents Cuba. Until September, 41% of all arrivals in Cuba come from Canada as main tourist market. The increase registered is in the first instance cyclical, but nonetheless a... read more...
September 29, 2015
Last September 27th was celebrated worldwide the World Tourism Day, which is especially important for Cuba as the industry represents 7 percent of the country´s GDP, said representatives of the Tourism Ministry. From January to July, tourism grew 17 percent with 2 million 194 thousand 134... read more...
September 24, 2015
The holding in this island of 10th International Nature Tourism Event, Turnat 2015, has much to do with the development of the travel industry in this country. Cuba has 110,922 square kilometers, including 746 kilometers of coastline (an overall length of 1,250 kilometers from Cabo de San Antonio,... read more...
September 19, 2015
With a cordial reception of the Cuban people and of President Raul Castro, Pope Francis was received at the "Jose Marti" International Airport in Havana. The Head of State Vatican comes to Cuba as ambassador of friendship and mercy, and also come to bring a message of peace and freedom... read more...
September 12, 2015
Cuba is promoted today as a destination for investment and tourism in China. Lisbet Quesada, Cuban general consul in China, stated the major opportunities offered by the Caribbean island as a destination for business, foreign investment, and tourism. The presentation of Quesada, an invitation to... read more...
September 10, 2015
Arrivals of foreign tourists in Cuba have increased 17 percent so far this year over the same period in 2014, according to the words of Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero. The additional visitors have come mainly from Canada, Britain, Spain, Mexico, France and Italy, the minister said in remarks... read more...
September 6, 2015
As most of us know by now, the diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba have been restored. With that, more and more Americans now see Cuba as a destination. The island has already seen more visitors than last year and the number is growing, which is good but at the same time... read more...
August 30, 2015
The tenth edition of the International Nature Tourism Event Turnat 2015, scheduled to be held in Cuba next September 21st to 27th, raises expectations in sectors of the travel industry, not only in Cuba, but also in the whole continent. Especially Latin American journalists and tour operators... read more...
August 25, 2015
Japanese travel agencies expect to increase the number of arrivals to the Caribbean island this year. The momentum is due to the restoration of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba recently and the international interest in promoting tourism exchange relations with the island. Travelers... read more...
August 18, 2015
Last Friday the U.S Embassy in Havana has been reopened in a moving ceremony. Finally, the administration of Obama has marked the end of an era of a political silence between both countries. This is an important step to eliminate the unfair Embargo, the oldest and lasting form of economic pressure... read more...
August 10, 2015
According to the results shown by the company Sojern.com, Cuba is one of the tourist destinations most increasing popularity and has maintained an upward trend during the last quarter, climbing another position from the first half to reach the position number 14 in the list of the 20 most popular... read more...
August 9, 2015
Gaviota, the largest tourism group in the country plans by the year 2020 to nearly double its number of hotel rooms islandwide to 50,000. The important group expects to open three new hotels in Havana over the next three years as it bids to make the Cuban capital a premier urban tourism destination... read more...
August 2, 2015
Many hope to benefit quickly under new U.S. rules allowing "purposeful" trips such as humanitarian or educational missions without a license. Others are preparing for what appears to be the inevitable day when the United States permits open travel. The latest to act was Carnival Corp.,... read more...
July 27, 2015
According to the Cuban consulate in Caracas and the Venezuelan Consortium Aircraft Industries and Air Services (Conviasa) and already in effect from July 24, Venezuelans wishing to travel to Cuba should opt for a tourist visa as an initial step for arrangements with travel agents, the validity of a... read more...
July 23, 2015
Most Caribbean islands suspect that with the opening of US relations with Cuba, the tourist map of the region will change in favor of the largest Caribbean island. “Overall as the Caribbean its probably exciting that Cuba is coming into the market especially for North American... read more...
July 18, 2015
A charter company will start weekly flights from Houston to Havana, making the first regular flight from the Bayou City to the once-forbidden Caribbean island. General tourism isn't allowed, but travelers from the U.S. to Cuba no longer have to apply for special licenses. This initiative is... read more...
