Cuba will close 2018 with the arrival of four million 750 thousand tourists, a figure higher than 2017 but lower than the expected plan, Minister of Economy and Planning Alejandro Gil said in Parliament today.
Until late November, 42,166 Chilean tourists had traveled to Cuba, accounting for an increase of 111 percent compared to the previous year, a source from the sector reported here.
Yuli, the biographical film about Carlos Acosta, received on Wednesday five Goya nominations including the best revelation actor for the famous Cuban dancer.
Health Minister Jose Angel Portal on Wednesday stressed Cuba''s commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals, on occasion of the Universal Health Coverage Day, commemorated each December 12.
With 40 years of existence, half of them in Argentina, Havanatur tourist company is currently working in Buenos Aires to diversify its products by 2019 in this and other markets.
Hotel Paradisus Los Cayos, property of the Gaviota Group and managed by the Spanish Melia Hotel chain, has just opened in Key Santa Maria, the first of the Brand Paradisus in that islet.
The 40th Festival of the New Latin American Cinema is opening in Havana, with a program of 373 films from 40 countries that also include workshops, discussions and presentations until December 16.
The 2nd Energy, Oil and Gas Conference is a crucial event because it helps to present business opportunities existing nowadays for foreign companies in this industry in Cuba.
The 22nd International Handicrafts Fair, Fiart 2018, opened in Havana with the participation of exhibitors from 19 countries and Mexico as a guest nation.
The airline Sunrise Airways on Wednesday opened a new route from Las Americas International Airport (AILA), in the Dominican Republic, to this capital, with a stopover in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The 40th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana will receive a Platinum Ibero-American Film Award as an acknowledgement of its contribution to enrich the cultural identity of the region, organizers said .
Cuba will have volleyball and baseball training camps in Japan with a view to the 2020 Olympic Games, Japanese sports authorities and a delegation from the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) agreed after fruitful negotiations.
Tourists coming to Cuba from all over the world on vacations, now highlight as one of the most outstanding and beautiful places of Cuba, the eastern city of Baracoa, first settlement built by the Spaniards over five centuries ago.
Hotels Meliá Buenavista in Key Santa Maria and Paradisus Rio de Oro, in Holguin, received the Prize to Excellence Conde Nast Johansens 2019, for the region of Canada, the United States and the Caribbean, says a press release of the Spanish hotel chain.
The photo exhibition ''Japanese Scenery 120 Years Ago'', which deals about Japanese immigration in Cuba, opened at the House-Museum of Asia in Old Havana on Friday.
Cuban women make up today 69 percent of health and social assistance professionals since they took on the challenge of becoming doctors and nurses, two professions that were denied to them in the past.
The Residencial Planta Real Hotel, of five-star category, will start rendering service in the present high season of international tourism to start in a few days, with a 28-room capacity.
Authorities from the Cubanacan hotel group are seeking to boost contemplative diving in Cuba's shores by designing attractive circuits including water sports, a source from the sector said.
Venezuela and Cuba are currently strengthening their economic ties in the framework of the International Tourism Fair in Venezuela (FITVEN), Cuban Deputy Tourism Minister Mayra Alvarez told Prensa Latina.
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