News about cuban tourism
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December 24, 2014
The Cuban tourist destination Varadero, or the beautiful blue beach “Playa Azul” welcomes new initiatives with regard to hotel management. On this occasion, the hotel chains Globalia and the Cuban Gran Caribe merge two hotels with a great tradition of accommodation in Cuba: Villa Cuba... read more...
December 11, 2014
The Canadian company Blue Diamond with a great participation in the country extends its operation with the new Hotel Memories Holguín, formerly Riu Playa Turquesa. The Canadian hotel chain has seven more tourist facilities and about four thousand rooms. Its new facility, located on the... read more...
December 9, 2014
Havana City is today part of the list of the seven cities wonders of the world, in accordance with Bernard Weber, president of the organizing foundation The New7Wonders, owing to the global diversity shown inside the urban context in the capital of all the Cubans. The definitive selection of... read more...
November 20, 2014
Cuba was promoted as an excellent destination for sun&beach travel in the International Tourism Trade Fair in Shanghai, the biggest event of its kind in Asia, and attracted the interest of travel agencies and tour operators participating. Many promotional media supported the tourist offers... read more...
November 18, 2014
Cuba is now offering important foreign investment opportunities in its tourist sector, which is the second major hard-currency earner after the export of professional services. In a commentary, Xinhua news agency recalls that these opportunities were announced during the launching of the Foreign... read more...
November 11, 2014
During the International Fair of Havana, Cuba and Portugal strengthened its economic and commercial relations in a forum where the Portuguese state secretaries of Food, Tourism and Foreign Affairs were present and also Paulo Portas, Deputy Prime Minister of the participating European... read more...
November 10, 2014
The arrival of a Sunwing flight from Toronto, Ontario, marked the beginning of the winter season for tourism in the eastern Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba. The vacationers were met at the Antonio Maceo International Airport by the Son Cristal Quintet, a band belonging to the Turarte Agency,... read more...
November 6, 2014
German Airline Condor Opens New Flight to Varadero German airline Condor today opens a new departure of its direct flights to Varadero, the major Cuban beach resort, some 140 kilometers east of this capital. This new departure to Cuba will allow the arrival of visitors not only from Cologne,... read more...
November 5, 2014
Cuba gets ready for receiving the highest amount of tourist of the year. The Island waits to overcome the figures of 2013. Despite of complicated context of world crisis, the country registered the arriving of 2071533 visitors until August, an increase of 3, 7% with regard to 2013 and it waits for... read more...
October 27, 2014
Incentivated by a notable rise in Argentine passengers to Cuba in September, Cuba shows here her tourism best products and destinations at the Buenos Aires Tourism Fair, FIT 2014. Representatives of the hotel chains Melia, Iberostar, ROC Hotels,. Superclubs, Blue Diamond, Paradiso, Barcelo,... read more...
October 24, 2014
Cuba presented in the Spanish cities of Vigo, Oviedo and San Sebastián offers of its tourist-centric destinations for sun and beach and the 500th anniversary of Santiago de Cuba to be held in 2015. At the end of September, Spain ranked ninth among tourism generating countries to Cuba,... read more...
October 15, 2014
At the beginning of the year, the Cuban State company Grupo Palmares (the company responsible for developing golf courses for the tourism) and the British company Esencia Hotels and Resorts, founded The Cabonera Golf and Country Club, Cuba’s first joint venture real estate company. This... read more...
October 13, 2014
The Cuban government aims to diversify and strengthen their economic and trade relations with foreign countries, so that country officials have held meetings with business representatives from nations like Japan, Spain and Iran. On the one hand, Ali Chegeni, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of... read more...
September 27, 2014
Cuban airline company Cubana de Aviación will offer nonstop flights between Cuba and Costa Rica starting on Nov. 16, the airline confirmed to Cuban media this week. The carrier dropped the route in August 2008. But the airline will reopen the flight as part of an objective to... read more...
September 18, 2014
Cuba will hold the 32nd International Trade Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2014) on Nov. 2-8 to attract foreign investment in its priority economic sectors, an official said here Tuesday. The FIHAV 2014, the most important commercial event in Cuba, will offer opportunities for outside investors to enter... read more...
September 4, 2014
The number of Cuban vacationers who stayed at Varadero, Cuba´s major tourist resort, was calculated at 112 thousand during the first half of the year, standing for 21 percent growth if compared to similar period of 2013, according to the Tourism Ministry. The statistics say that 23... read more...
August 25, 2014
The US Treasury Department's inspector general has determined Jay-Z and Beyonce's fifth-anniversary trip to Cuba last year was legal under rules allowing educational travel to the island. The music superstars angered several Republican politicians in Florida with their four-day visit to Havana,... read more...
August 15, 2014
Cuba says it will showcase its culture and promote its tourism at Milan Expo 2015. According to the island's Chamber of Commerce, Cuba will dedicate its pavilion to nutrition and the country's food production. "Expo can offer many opportunities for Cuba," said Italy's ambassador in... read more...
August 9, 2014
Not even the high temperatures of the Cuban summer have overcome the charm and magic of the Holy Trinity Village, Cultural Heritage of Humanity. As a distinction from these times, the cobblestone streets, the colonial architecture, and the air that mark the excellence of Trinidad as a... read more...
August 3, 2014
From January to June, 2014, Cuba received one million 660,055 tourists, a figure that represents a growth of almost four percent as compared to figures of the same period of 2013. These results are not totally encouraging for a sector that aspires to reach this year the figure of three million... read more...
July 25, 2014
Known for its rural sites and the excellent qualities of its tobacco, Pinar del Rio promotes rural tourism as a leisure option, involving the agricultural activities of the province located in the far west of Cuba, said specialists. The Tobacco Route includes fields of the San Luis and San Juan... read more...
July 18, 2014
The hotel rebuilt by Gaviota SA Tourism Group at Gomez block, in this city, will operate under the management of Swiss chain Kempinski, which luxury services are spread all around the world. Authorities of Cuban Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR by its Spanish acronym) confirmed the news to the press... read more...
July 1, 2014
Cuba received 1,478,636 international tourists during the first five months of 2014, representing an increase of 4.6 percent compared to the same period of the previous year. In May alone, 195,753 international tourists opted for Cuba as a recreational destination, surpassing the 191,213... read more...
April 29, 2014
Cubans are professionally well trained in the tourism and gastronomy sector, said the President of the Federation of Culinary Associations of the Republic of Cuba (FACRC), Eduardo Fernandez. The expert said that type of meetings of professionals allows an exchange not only between the chefs and... read more...
April 24, 2014
More Americans are going to Cuba, which makes the U.S. the second tourism source for the island nation after Canada, according to a new report. Despite a travel embargo that's been in effect for half a century, 173,550 Americans went to Cuba in January through March. "The data confirms,... read more...
