{"id":92798,"date":"2017-05-08T05:11:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T09:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=92798"},"modified":"2017-05-08T05:11:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T09:11:36","slug":"more-luxury-tourism-paying-for-havana-what-havana-deserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/economy\/cuban-economy\/more-luxury-tourism-paying-for-havana-what-havana-deserves\/","title":{"rendered":"More luxury tourism: \u201cPaying for Havana what Havana deserves\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">All languages are spoken at a tourism fair. Or almost all. With the most unexpected accents, the most curious pronunciations: the guttural Spanish of a German, the Buenos Aires French of an Argentinean, the accelerated English of a Russian. Or of a Cuban or a Chinese. That is FITCuba 2017: a contemporary tower of Babel, a multilingual tide that tours the Playa Pesquero Hotel, to the north of Holgu\u00edn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The first day of the fair is the most chaotic; the multinational murmur bounces in all the hotel\u2019s walls. At the same time it is more organized. Everything has been previewed, everything has been programmed. The schedules are met with Caribbean rigor. But the tide doesn\u2019t stop. The people crowd in the theater, in the lobby, in the bars and the hallways. Way after noon there are still persons being accredited, looking for one of the organizers for an explanation about one or another question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero\u2019s adddress began a bit before 11:00 in the morning. It was the inaugural conference, which concluded with the formality of \u201cofficially inaugurating FITCuba 2017,\u201d the 37th edition of the fair and the first held in eastern Cuba. Before this Holgu\u00edn\u2019s authorities had welcomed the participants, and even before that Marrero had cut the ribbon and unveiled a plaque at the entrance to the hotel, \u201cfor a tourism of peace, health and safety.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style='display:none' class=\"jeg_preview_slider gallery_1\" data-selector='gallery_1'>\n                        <div class=\"jeg_preview_holder\">\n                            <div class=\"jeg_preview_media\">\n                        <div class=\"jeg_preview_media_holder\">\n                            <h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n                            <div class=\"fullscreen-switch\">\n                                <i class=\"fa\"><\/i>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"jeg_preview_media_content\">\n                                <div class=\"jeg_preview_media_content_holder_padding\">\n                                    <div class=\"jeg_preview_media_content_holder\"><\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"jeg_preview_media_content_navigation\">\n                                    <div class=\"prev\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"next\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                                <div class='preview-slider-overlay'>\n                                    <div class='preloader_type preloader_dot'>\n                                        <div class=\"module-preloader jeg_preloader dot\">\n                                            <span><\/span><span><\/span><span><\/span>\n                                        <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"module-preloader jeg_preloader circle\">\n                                            <div class=\"jnews_preloader_circle_outer\">\n                                                <div class=\"jnews_preloader_circle_inner\"><\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                                        <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"module-preloader jeg_preloader square\">\n                                            <div class=\"jeg_square\">\n                                                <div class=\"jeg_square_inner\"><\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                                        <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"jeg_preview_control\">\n                                <div class=\"left_control\">\n                                    <div class=\"counter\"><span class=\"current\">1<\/span> of  2<\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"subtitle\"><\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"zoom\">\n                                    <span class=\"reduce\">-<\/span>\n                                    <span class=\"increase\">+<\/span>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"jeg_preview_bottom_slider\">\n                        <a data-id=\"0\" data-title=\"Minister Manuel Marrero (L), with the executive president of the Iberostar Group, Miguel Flux\u00e0, cut the inaugural ribbon in the Plaza Col\u00f3n Hotel, Gibara, Holgu\u00edn. 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Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras.\" \/>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/a><a data-id=\"1\" data-title=\"Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero (C), Luis Torres (R), secretary of the Communist Party in Holgu\u00edn, and Jorge Cuevas (L), head of tourism, transportation and services of the Central Committee. Presentation of Gibara as a tourist destination, FITCuba2017. 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Minister Manuel Marrero (L), with the executive president of the Iberostar Group, Miguel Flux\u00e0, cut the inaugural ribbon in the Plaza Col\u00f3n Hotel, Gibara, Holgu\u00edn. Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras.<\/h3>\n                                <div class=\"jeg_preview_description_content\">\n                                    <p>Minister Manuel Marrero (L), with the executive president of the Iberostar Group, Miguel Flux\u00e0, cut the inaugural ribbon in the Plaza Col\u00f3n Hotel, Gibara, Holgu\u00edn. Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras.<\/p>\n\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div><div class=\"jeg_hidden_preview_description\">\n                                <h3>2. Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero (C), Luis Torres (R), secretary of the Communist Party in Holgu\u00edn, and Jorge Cuevas (L), head of tourism, transportation and services of the Central Committee. Presentation of Gibara as a tourist destination, FITCuba2017. Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras.<\/h3>\n                                <div class=\"jeg_preview_description_content\">\n                                    <p>Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero (C), Luis Torres (R), secretary of the Communist Party in Holgu\u00edn, and Jorge Cuevas (L), head of tourism, transportation and services of the Central Committee. Presentation of Gibara as a tourist destination, FITCuba2017. Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras.<\/p>\n\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                        <script>\n                            var gallery_1 = {\n                                rtl: false,\n                                native_zoom: true,\n                                zoom_max: 5,\n                                zoom_step: 40,\n                                image_sequence: []\n                            };\n                        <\/script>\n                    <\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Cuban minister was accompanied by Mrs. Amgard Wippler, representative of the German government. The fair was dedicated to Germany, and Marrero as well as Wippler mentioned the increase of German tourism to the island: more than 242,000 visitors in 2016, Europe\u2019s first issuing market to Cuba, with a 38 percent growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Before businesspeople, agents, tour operators and around a hundred accredited journalists, Marrero insisted on the perspectives of Cuban tourism. He spoke of expansion, of development, of potentials that have an impact on the island\u2019s economy. He resorted to the irrefutable statistics: four million visitors that must be surpassed this year; North America, with a static Canada but with a growing United States, made up 45 percent of the total travelers; a 95 percent general satisfaction and a 41 percent index of repeat stays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">But the figures don\u2019t stop there, there are the quantified facts that the minister announced as good news: more than 400 programs for circuit tourism, a modality that FITCuba 2017 highlighted and that the island aims to strengthen among its tourist offers. More than 100 projects for new foreign administration associations and contracts. The plan, he insisted, is to diversify even more the Cuban tourist product and to expand the presence of major international chains, which decades ago was heresy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Times change, Marrero seemed to be telling the skeptics, and tourism is the spearhead. And to prove this he spoke of 25 joint ventures, of 19 foreign managements, of 82 signed contracts, of 41,000 rooms, 62 percent of the country\u2019s hotel capacity, managed by these associations.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92803\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FitCuba-755x490-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92803\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FitCuba-755x490-1.jpg\" alt=\"The participants in the FITCuba 2017 International Tourism Fair arrive on catamarans to the coasts of Gibara, Holgu\u00edn, May 2, 2017. Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras \/ CAN.\" width=\"755\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The participants in the FITCuba 2017 International Tourism Fair arrive on catamarans to the coasts of Gibara, Holgu\u00edn, May 2, 2017. Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras \/ CAN.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">He spoke of the increase in air operations, of close to 70 airlines with regular or charter flights to the island, of 25 approved cruises, of more than 200 programmed stopovers in Havana and other Cuban ports, of 170,000 visitors who will arrive through this means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">And he also spoke of new agreements, of new investments. He mentioned places like Cayo Cruz, in Camag\u00fcey; Sagua la Grande, in Villa Clara; Gibara, in Holgu\u00edn; and contracts with chains like Iberostar and Meli\u00e1 for Santiago de Cuba and Cienfuegos. He spoke of upcoming luxury hotels, like the Manzana Kempinski, to \u201cpay for Havana what Havana deserves,\u201d he said, also about new real estate developers, marinas and golf courses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Marrero kept for the end the other news. Precisely on the day FITCuba was inaugurated, the island reached the two million tourists, according to the official forecasts. It did so 39 days before 2016, which indicates a 15 percent growth. The fair, however, had just started.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All languages are spoken at a tourism fair. Or almost all. With the most unexpected accents, the most curious pronunciations: the guttural Spanish of a German, the Buenos Aires French of an Argentinean, the accelerated English of a Russian. Or of a Cuban or a Chinese. 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