At the 67th Meeting of the Regional Commission of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), which is being held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, Cuba confirmed the reactivation of tourism in the country.
The legal director of the Ministry of Tourism, Juan José Álvarez, and the Cuban ambassador to Uruguay, Zulan Popa, made up the island’s delegation to the event, which was attended by the UNWTO Secretary General, Zurab Pololikashvili.
Both officials assured that after the impact of COVID-19, a growing dynamic of visitors is maintained in Cuba, and that it is expected to receive in 2022 more than half of the tourists who entered the country in 2019.
They also said that the Cuban government early implemented a program of preventive measures to deal with the pandemic.
Álvarez and Popa thanked the messages of condolences from governments and regional institutions for the accident at the Saratoga hotel in Havana.
During the opening day of this meeting, the unity of Latin America in the face of adversity was highlighted in many of the interventions, including that of the Secretary General of the UNWTO, the Georgian Zurab Pololikashvili.
“We will never be as strong as when we are united,” he said in his speech during the inauguration, which he shared early this Thursday with the President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, and the Minister of Tourism of the host country, Tabaré Viera. .
