Destinations

Destinations

Mystique Casa Perla, a new jewel in Varadero

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Mystique Casa Perla is the new Gran Caribe hotel that will soon begin operations in the famous Varadero resort, under the management of the Canadian chain Blue Diamond.

Sixty-two Street Boulevard, new attraction of Varadero

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Varadero, considered the second-best beach in the world, will offer its visitors new possibilities for recreation and leisure, when the boulevard under construction soon to be operational.

Cuba´s Varadero destination reopened with British tourists

Prensa Latina

The Cuban beach resort of Varadero reopened the tourist season in the new normality after the Covid-19 with over 240 British vacationers who arrived on Sunday night from Manchester on a G-TUI direct flight.

Varadero, one of the safest beaches in the Caribbean

Photos & Text: Mercy Ramos

Varadero, among the 10 best beaches in the world, is also considered one of the safest because its 52 hotels hold the Most Hygienic and Safe Tourism (T + HS) certification

The Laguna de la Leche, white waters in Ciego de Ávila

By Coco Simpson

Laguna de la Leche (Milk Lagoon) is the largest freshwater reserve in Cuba, located north of the city of Morón, in the central province of Ciego de Ávila.

Gran Caribe, Authentic Hospitality

The Gran Caribe Group has 45 hotels with more than 12,000 rooms. These hotels are in cities with varied architecture, ranging from classical to modern. For lovers of Cuban warm waters, lush nature and irresistible blue sea they can also be found at the forefront of natural beaches and untouched keys.

Cayo Santa María, the White Rose

Located some 20 miles north of central Villa Clara Province, the Santa María key is also known as the White Rose of Jardines del Rey. It is the largest of a group of 500 islets known as Cayos de la Herradura (horseshoe keys), with a total area of over 1300 sq. km., north of which is the world’s second largest barrier reef.

Playa Girón

Named after the French pirate Gilberto Girón who descended on the area around the year 1604, Playa Girón is a beach in Matanzas Province about 114 kilometres from Havana. While the name Playa Girón may mean little to many nonCubans, it’s location on the eastern side of the Bay of Pigs might ring a bell.

Dream vacations in Cayo Coco

By Graciela Guzmán, Photos by MINTUR

Vacationers who enjoy nature, like water sports and other forms of healthy recreation, appreciate good music and delight in sampling a variety of foods, dream of an option like Cayo Coco, a quiet corner of the Cuban geography where a beautiful landscape is permanently on display given the contrast of the sea’s intense blue and the green of its ecosystem.

Tour operator TUI resumes flights to Varadero resort

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German tour operator TUI will resume as of October 25 two weekly direct flights from the United Kingdom to Varadero resort in Cuba, an official source from the Caribbean nation confirmed in London on Wednesday.

Spanish hotel chains strongly focus on Cuba

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The major Spanish hotel chains such as Melia Hotels International, Iberostar and Barcelo are strongly considening the resumption of tourism in Cuba, according to their reports.

New strategy of Cuban tourism to develop the sector

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The Cuban Ministry of Tourism has drawn up a strategy to promote foreign investment and more access to new technologies in such a way that vacationers have Internet connections in all tourist centers of the country, said head of the sector, Juan Carlos García Granda.

Cuba: Foreign tourists to arrive in Varadero beach

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The delegation of the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) in the western Cuban province of Matanzas on Friday confirmed the arrival of the first flight with foreign holidaymakers in Varadero on October 25, after that coastal resort was opened to international markets.

Scheduled for July 2021 7th Workshop on Biological Diversity andTourism(BIOTUR)

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The Seventh Workshop on Biological Diversity and Tourism (BIOTUR), an event of nature in eastern Cuba, will be held from July 16 to 18, 2021, according to an announcement published by its organizers in its website.

Russia resumes international flights to Cuba, Serbia, Japan

Prensa Latina

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced today the reopening from November 1 of air communications with Cuba, Serbia and Japan, following the closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic.