Spain’s Sol Meliá hotel company inaugurated the Meliá Buenavista Hotel, a deluxe installation with Royal Service, in Cayo Santa María, on the northern coast of Cuba, Gabriel García, marketing director of the Cuba Division, announced. That company manages 21 per cent of all the rooms built on the island and in two decades of operations has contributed 3.664 billion dollars to the country.
Read MoreThe governments of Cuba and The Ukraine hope to strengthen bilateral cooperation in areas such as medicine, industry and tourism, the media reported after the meeting in Havana between the respective foreign ministers, Bruno Rodríguez and Konstantin Grishenko, According to the Ukrainian official, in 2010 there was a significant increase in commercial exchange, which last year was 23.5 million dollars.
Read MoreMaximum high temperatures are expected to fluctuate between 19° and 24°C (66° and 75° F), while the low temperatures will be between 13° and 17°C (55° and 63° F).
Read MoreThe Court of Crimes against State Security of the City of Havana People’s Provincial Court sentenced Salvadoran terrorist Francisco Chávez Abarca to 30 years in prison for carrying out and organizing bomb attacks against tourist installations in Cuba during the 1990s.
Read MoreThe Cuban capital will build in 2011 a third crematorium to respond to the growing demand of persons who prefer that method for their mortal remains, Lorenzo Cruz, deputy director of cemetery services of the Provincial Budgeted Unit of Cemetery Services, announced. According to Cruz, this year more than 6,000 persons requested that service, as compared to barely 50 when it was inaugurated in 2006.
Read MoreNational tourism became the second source of visitors for Varadero beach resort, 120 kilometers east of the Cuban capital, reported industry sources. In 2010 the arrival of Cuban tourists to the peninsula grew by nine per cent. Every year Varadero receives more than a million vacationers, led by Canadians.
Read MoreThe Cuban Foreign Ministry summoned representatives of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) community and specialists from the National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX) to consult them on the vote this Tuesday at the U.N. on an amendment proposed by the United States that would reincorporate an explicit mention of discrimination for sexual orientation in the resolution condemning extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, announced Francisco Rodríguez, author of the Paquito el de Cuba blog.
Read MoreCuba increased its personnel deployed in the medical brigade in Haiti, where 501 MDs and 404 nursing specialists are currently working, in addition to the technical and support force, said Lorenzo Somarriba López, Cuban deputy minister of health and coordinator of that contingent, which is especially working in the struggle against the cholera epidemic
Read MoreDespite the four per cent growth in tourist arrivals to Cuba until last November, the tourist sector’s income did not meet the forecast of the island’s authorities, the National Office of Statistics (ONE) reported. In 2011, the Caribbean country hopes to increase by 29.5 per cent the amount of money that enters the nation through that means, as a result of a 10.3 per cent increase in the number of visitors.
Read MoreThe Cuban tourism authorities expect to increase the arrival of cruise ships to the island in 2011, with the operations of ships from Russia, Canada and the UK, José Manuel Bisbé, marketing director of the Ministry of Tourism, announced. Moreover, the Caribbean nation will increase air links with Canada, its principal tourist market with almost one million visitors a year, with the start of flights by the Air Transat and Sunwing airlines.
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