The island was a British colony for more than a century, and is now a member of the Commonwealth, but it has retained its French Creole character.
During 2019, three thousand 808 new hotel rooms will be ready, and two thousand 404, including those out of order, will be recovered, according to the investment program developed by the Ministry of Tourism, made known its holder Manuel Marrero.
He recognized that the Cuban capital, which is about to celebrate its 500th Anniversary, play an important role in this plan with 13 new accommodation facilities including the Paseo del Prado Hotel, Palacio Cueto Hotel, Portales de Paseo, Vedado 500, and Vedado Azul.
The new extra hotelunits like the Club 500 are added to this, and they will be remodeled recreation and leisure centers like the 1830, Don Cangrejo, La Ferminia and others that will constitute another attraction of the capitaltourist offer.
Marrero pointed out that Meliá Internacional Hotels in Varadero and Río San Juan in Matanzas already provide services, and in the course of the year the Iberostar Albatrosof Holguín will be inaugurated, as well as others under the trade mark Encanto in Havana, Sancti Spiritus, Camagüey, Gibara and Santiago de Cuba.
Likewise, two new facilities in Cayo Guillermo and the first hotel of the tourist pole Cayo Cruz will start operating, which will be operated by the Spanish chain H10, announced the Minister of Tourism of Cuba. He also emphasized that the plan of investments of the year is of three thousand 046 million in total currency.
In this year the tourist industry in Cuba not only directs its efforts to the increase of the hotel infrastructure and associated services, but also works to increase the application of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), as part of the actions to optimize the attentionquality to the tourists.
Marrero said the main work guidelines are aimed at bringing Wi-Fi service to all hotels common areas, housing block and beach, in extrahoteliers and buses, including Internet as part of the tourist package, cover the silent zones with 3G and 4G coverage and develop CubaTravel for the electronic commerce.
The island was a British colony for more than a century, and is now a member of the Commonwealth, but it has retained its French Creole character.
