The airline Air Canada will connect, as of October 28, Tokyo and Havana with a stopover in the Canadian city of Toronto. The date coincides with the reopening of flights between Japan and Canada after the covid-19 pandemic, and reservations can now be made on the company’s website, at a price of around $1,000 one way, at the lowest rate. cheap.
The frequency to the Cuban capital will be daily from Haneda Airport and four flights a week from Narita Airport, as reported on Tuesday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cuban and picked up the official press.
In a concise press release, the Ministry reported a meeting between the commercial economic counselor of the Cuban Embassy in Japan, Katia Monzón, and the sales manager of the Canadian company in Tokyo, Koshita Michiya, in which officials also participated. of the state travel agency Travel Bodeguita.
Monzón Ulloa “provided an update on the arrival of tourists to Cuba so far this year and explained the characteristics of the new Cuba Única tourism promotion campaign”
Both parties promised to carry out “promotional actions” and “seminars”, according to the official statement. Without offering the figures in the text, the note says that Monzón Ulloa “provided an update on the arrival of tourists to Cuba so far this year and explained the characteristics of the new Cuba Única tourism promotion campaign.”
Until the month of May, according to the latest official figures publishedthe Island received from tourism, its third source of income, just over $261 million of the 1,159 that he aspired to collect in the sector throughout the year. This figure represents an average expenditure per tourist of about 463.6 dollars, far from the average declared in 2019, before the covid-19 pandemic, when the expenditure per tourist stood at 700.
During the pandemic, Japan has had harsh travel restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus and, as a consequence, its presence in world tourism has been irrelevant. Before 2020, it was not a forceful issuer of travelers to the Island either, although in 2019, during the International fair of tourismthe Japanese authorities expressed their willingness to resume charter flights to Cuba and increase the number of visitors to their country, some 20,000 in the previous three years.
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