MIAMI, United States. – The Minister of Tourism of Cuba, Juan Carlos García Granda, referred this Wednesday to the sustained increase in tourist facilities on the island and said that the growth rate of tourists has been higher than that of rooms since the 1990s.
García Granda reviewed the sector during a session of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) held this Wednesday and reported by the official media Cubadebate.
The official insisted on the regime’s plans to reach 2.5 million visitors by 2022.
On the other hand, he reported that there are 78,862 rooms in the country and that Havana, Matanzas and Villa Clara are the territories with the largest number.
On the problems affecting the tourism industry, he referred to “road signs, currency exchange and car rental”.
“In some places, dissatisfaction with communal hygiene and the infrastructure of cities, the infrastructure of roads, buildings and cities was appreciated,” he said.
He also alluded to the lack of variety of food and beverages, given which, he said, tourist facilities expand contractual relations with productive forms (cooperatives and production centers).
Although the harsh crisis that the island is going through, the regime continues betting on raising the levels of the tourism industry. This Tuesday met that the Cubasol business group, of the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR), projected new investments to strengthen the non-hotel infrastructure of the Island until 2030, including the development of golf courses.
The vice president of Cubasol, Alex Mulet, detailed in statements to Prensa Latina that the group has around 150 projects to be completed before 2030, including recreational parks, adventure parks and the expansion of nautical activities.
In addition, he pointed out that approximately 40 will be carried out before 2026, as part of integrated developments with various non-hotel services.
On the other hand, the Cuban regime has not The construction of new hotels or the expansion of existing ones has been paralyzed. In the months of global economic crisis caused by the pandemic and internal shortages caused by the handling of the economy by the Communist Party, the construction works of new hotels have not stopped, according to the statement. a report published in CubaNet in early June this year.
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