{"id":309848,"date":"2024-09-20T13:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=309848"},"modified":"2024-09-20T13:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:22:55","slug":"tourism-under-scrutiny-of-comptroller-general-of-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/economy\/tourism-in-cuba\/tourism-under-scrutiny-of-comptroller-general-of-the-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism under scrutiny of Comptroller General of the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

From hotels to travel agencies, restaurants, warehouses, and wholesale sales, among other agencies, the 16th National Internal Control Inspection will review the tourism industry, one of the most important on the island and the destination of most of the State\u2019s investments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Begun this Wednesday in agencies located in all provinces and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, the inspection will last until October 31 with 170 control actions in enterprises and entities related to tourism, according to a report published in <\/span>Granma<\/span><\/i> newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the newspaper, this annual exercise to control the progress of public policies will evaluate the pace and implementation of the measures, provisions and established regulations that allow improving efficiency in administrative management.<\/span><\/p>\n

The declared general objective is to strengthen the socialist state enterprise, enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic as the main subject of the national economy so that the other forms of production and ownership assume a complementary role.<\/span><\/p>\n

The administrative management and efficient use of resources will be inspected in the selected entities, first of all energy, price formation, supply relations or linkages of the different economic actors with tourism, specifically: agricultural and food production; the national furniture industry; and the production of cleaning products.<\/span><\/p>\n

The selection of entities includes all provinces and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud.<\/span><\/p>\n

The actions will be carried out in 43 municipalities, 25.6% of the country\u2019s 168 municipalities and will primarily evaluate the use and destination of fuel, except for special checks on suppliers, and other complementary aspects that require verification (contracting, accounts receivable and payable and inventory, among others).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Comptroller General of the Republic. Photo: AMD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sample to be inspected<\/b><\/p>\n

The selected sample includes 52 hotels, motels and similar; 16 other types of temporary accommodation centers; 13 restaurants, cafeterias and canteens; 12 wholesale sales of products; 11 travel agencies, excursions and guides and a dozen different services for regular passenger land transportation, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

In relation to suppliers, the activities of 13 dairy product processing enterprises; 9 meat and meat product production enterprises; and 8 wholesale sales of agricultural products will be verified.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the 170 control actions planned in the national territory, 115 correspond to entities of the Higher Organizations of Business Management (OSDE), directly under the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR), and one of direct attention of the organization, corresponding to them 68.8% of the total of selected entities.<\/span><\/p>\n

GAESA<\/b><\/p>\n

The report does not discriminate within the more than fifty hotels to be reviewed, how many belong to the Gaviota Tourism Group, managed by GAESA, the Business Administration Group of the military apparatus of the island.<\/span><\/p>\n

The portfolio of this emporium has a significant part of the 4- and 5-star hotels in Cuba, in addition to marinas and travel agencies, transportation and other hotel services, among other assets.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview in the past with the Spanish agency EFE, the former comptroller Gladys Bejerano said that the business conglomerate GAESA was not under her supervision.<\/span><\/p>\n

She argued that GAESA has \u201csuperior discipline and organization\u201d due to its decades of business experience and that the Comptroller General\u2019s Office concentrates \u201cforces\u201d where \u201cadvances\u201d are needed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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