MADRID, Spain.- During a press conference held this week at the Cuban Embassy in Madrid, the Minister of Tourism in Spain, Niurka Pérez Denis, highlighted that the Island is ready to receive cruise ships.
“We have all the sanitary measures and infrastructure. The conditions are created to receive the boats”, added the owner.
In addition, he explained that Havana, Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba have already received cruises from different destinations, although “not in the same amount as before the pandemic,” the magazine reported. Excellencies.
At the beginning of last March, with the arrival of the British cruise ship Marella Explorer 2 in Havana, the Cuban authorities had indicated that they hoped to start the resuscitation of this modality tour.
During the press conference, Pérez Denis once again insisted on the regime’s claims of receiving 2.5 million tourists during 2022, although statistics show that the figure will be much lower, especially due to the fall of the Russian market, the main provider of tourists to the country, due to the cancellation of flights by Russian airlines as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.
As has been happening since the Cuban Government announced the upcoming FITCuba-2022 International Tourism Fair, the Minister once again referred to this event as a way of presenting to the world “the improvement of the tourism product based on the investments that have been made, with the introduction of 4,000 more rooms in four and five star hotels”.
“With the Fair, a program dedicated not only to the sun and beach product, but to the entire cultural offer is also developed, one part of it live, and another dedicated to the business segment, as well as a program for airlines” he explained.
Last week, the Cuban Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, I consider that FITCuba-2022 “is a great opportunity to show the benefits and strengths of the sector in the country and reinforce, in turn, the strategic nature of this industry in the Cuban economy.”
For Marrero Cruz “the event will serve to tell the world that —according to him— the country is alive, resisting and advancing.”
The prime minister also pointed out that Varadero, the venue for the fair, needs “a transformation”, “nightlife, nightclubs, points of sale and stores with extended hours”, as well as “the redesign of products” to “give more life to the city”.
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