SLP, Méxicos.- The Minister of Tourism De Cuba, Juan Carlos García Granda, advanced in meeting with travel agents residing in Spain who organize a summer camp for the children of emigrants.
Without providing many data in this regard, the Cuban official said that the initiative is carried out with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As he said Travel Trade Caribbean, The regime also values the possibility of organizing family maritime excursions in some tourist poles in the country.
Within the framework of the International Tourism Fair (Fitur) 2025, held in Spain, the Cuban government seeks to promote Cuba as a tourist destination when the figures of the branch continue to decline.
In a meeting with representatives of 21 travel agencies, held at the Cuban Embassy in the Iberian country, the Minister of Tourism of Cuba, the island ambassador, Marcelino Medina, and the Minister of Tourism, Niurka Pérez, tried to focus on the Cuban emigrants as potential clients to stimulate sector.
The officials insisted on the need to create commercial strategies to attract visitors and promote offers for Cubans residing abroad.
The agents, meanwhile, added as measures Analyze the minimum limit of nights of stays in hotels, the availability of cars to rent at the airport and look for options to “counteract the adverse media campaign to tourism in Cuba.”
García Granda himself stressed that tourism plans and projects in Cuba “are not done based on what the locking restrictions may or may not assume,” and was optimistic for this year, despite the fact that the past did not comply with The planned goals.
The data provided by the press show that the regime intends to continue investing in tourist infrastructure despite low hotel occupancy: 11 new plan projects in the poles of the island.
Among them, they mentioned two aquatic parks, one in Havana and the other in the Varadero spa; the expansion of the Plaza América complex; the creation of the Bahía Naranjo Park, in the province of Holguín and near the beach of Guardalavaca; the remodeling and expansion of the Hemingway Marina in Havana; and the reconversion of the Nautical Base Ancón, in Trinidad, in an International Navy Class C.
Despite the planned investments, tourism does not recover the levels shown prior to the pandemic. The island barely reached 2,005,390 international travelers between January and November 2024, which meant a 7.9% setback compared to the same period of 2023.
Tourist destinations in the region such as Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) and Cancun-Tulum (Mexico) are experiencing record figures, but the equivalent destinations on the island decay.
The weakness of Cuban tourism – economic motor of the island for years – is explained, among other reasons, for the crisis that hits the country, which includes the deterioration of the hotel sector, the serious energy deficit of the island, the lack of food, the lack of food, the decline of the health sector and US sanctions.
