{"id":232001,"date":"2020-12-20T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T13:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=232001"},"modified":"2020-12-20T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T13:54:30","slug":"international-tourism-returns-to-central-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/international-tourism-returns-to-central-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"International tourism returns to central Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the arrival this Friday of the inaugural flight of Hola Sun and Caribe Sol tour operators with the OWG airline, from Canada, to the Abel Santamar\u00eda International Airport, in Santa Clara, the return of international tourism<\/a> to central Cuba began after the pause forced by COVID -19.<\/p>\n

A hundred travelers arrived on board the aircraft from the Canadian cities of Toronto and Montreal. Of them, 42 headed to Rancho Luna beach, in Cienfuegos, while another 95 had reservations for the tourist destination of Cayo Santa Mar\u00eda, north of Villa Clara, according to<\/a> the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency.<\/p>\n

Esther Lidia Machado, main specialist of the delegation of the Ministry of Tourism in the province of Villa Clara, explained to the agency that the Playa Cayo Santa Mar\u00eda Hotel is reopening with this group of tourists.<\/p>\n

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For her part, Malvis Oro, operations specialist at Havantur Centro\u2015a Cuban travel agency \u2015reported that as of next Friday, two weekly OWG flights will arrive, one from Toronto and the other from Montreal, while this Sunday another flight with Canadian tourists is expected, this one with Air Canada, and another flight from Poland with Blue Panorama will arrive from Poland on Tuesday 22, both with an inaugural character.<\/p>\n

The officials said that both the Santa Clara airport and the hotel facilities in the region apply rigorous hygienic-epidemiological measures to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, and pointed out that in the coming weeks \u201ca growing participation of airlines is expected for tourism, after the retention caused by the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

This Friday, the Cuban Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) also confirmed that in 2021 it will bet on \u201ccontinuing with the vitality and dynamism of the sector and increasing the arrival of visitors to the destination,\u201d according to another ACN<\/em> report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cuban authorities project the arrival of 2,200,000 visitors, double the expected for 2020 as a result of COVID-19, a year in which, however, it was possible to \u201cgenerate significant movements in markets such as Russia, Germany and Canada,\u201d according to Dalila Alba Gonz\u00e1lez, MINTUR\u2019s Deputy General Director of Marketing.<\/p>\n

The official pointed out that her ministry \u201cis working intensively in the preparation of the 40th edition of the International Tourism Fair, FITCuba 2021, scheduled for May 3 to 8 in Varadero, in a context of new normality marked by COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, she said that \u201cwith dozens of hotels certified as Tourism More Hygienic and Safer,\u201d the MINTUR \u201chas provided security protocols to preserve the health of both guests and its workers\u201d in conjunction with the island\u2019s Ministry of Public Health and the international health organizations responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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