The travel industry in Cuba must have a good high season -November 2019 to April 2020-, despite the problems and restrictions imposed on the country, Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz told reporters.
Speaking to the press, after the conclusion of the 60th anniversary of tourism in Cuba, Marrero said this was a rather complicated year, especially because of the strengthening of Washington's restrictive measures against Havana, from a commercial, economic and financial point of view. Despite this, he added, the country must achieve a good high season, for which a plan of 56 measures has been established in order to face the situation and allow growth in more than 10 percent of tourism, counting the arrivals by air, the main way to visit Cuba. Among the plans of the Ministry of Tourism is the sale of more excursions and looking for new flights with more facilities, the landing of planes of other airlines.
In this context, he regretted the bankruptcy of two major British travel agencies that operated with Cuba, Holiday Place and Thomas Cook, the latter was the oldest of its kind in the world and both sent about 95,000 tourists to the island each year.
On the other hand, he said, alternatives are being sought with other British tour operators who do not even operate in the Caribbean, also adding the growing interest in China to visit the Island. Mintur, he continued, maintains its investment program that includes the repair of hotels and the construction of new accommodations. Suffice it to point out that four thousand new rooms were completed this year and by 2020 the plan for new accommodations amounts to some 4,200. All this led him to predict that next year will be a good year for tourism on this island, while he assured that the plan for the closing of 2019 with four million 300 thousand foreign visitors must be fulfilled, a growth of around 1.6 Percent of tourists staying overnight in hotels.
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