TOURISM

A US tourist company will offer direct charter flights from Orlando City (Florida) to Havana following the ease of travel restrictions as a result of the rapprochement between Cuba and the U.S.»

Hotel del Rijo belongs to Cubanacan Hotels Company. It inherited the name of one of its owners back in 1815. Son of Mrs María del Rosario Rijo y Gil and the doctor on medicine José Manuel García Cañizares, the outstanding doctor graduated in the city of Paris.»

Cuban Tourism Ministry announced that the total figure of foreign tourists to Cuba reached 3 million on December 30, standing for a 5.3 percent growth if compared to last year.»

Nine of the 41 French tourists injured in a traffic accident in Cuba were reported in serious conditions, with danger to their life, by the direction of the University Hospital Gustavo Aldereguía.»

Cuba promotes heritage and cultural sites, as well as sun and beach destinations, in the Top Resa Tourism Fair that continues today at the Exhibition Park of Porte de Versailles in Paris.»

The number of Cuban tourists visiting Trinidad went up from January to date by 18 percent, if compared with the same period of time last year.»

Villa San Jose del Lago resort, located in Mayajigua town, to the north of Sancti Spiritus, offers a natural pleasant environment which makes it worth visiting.»

Sancti Spiritus hotel and extra-hotel facilities get ready for the summer months, when national and foreign visitor arrivals increase.»

The tourism industry and export funds in the Cuban central province of Sancti Spiritus—of the utmost importance for the development of the island’s economy— have contributed revenue of more than 66 million pesos so far this year.»

Cuban Minister of Tourism, Manuel Marrero Cruz, expressed his satisfaction with the changes that have taken place around historic Sancti Spiritus, which will avail the inclusion of the area in the country’s main tourism circuits.»