State governing body of the Tourism System, in which other entities of the country participate. In this sense, MINTUR elaborates the policy and controls its application in the entities that directly manage the properties of the sector.

Strategic Objectives

• Design and realize a more efficient commercialization of the tourist product.

• Increase and diversify a more competitive tourism offer.

• Recover and grow the hotel plant.

• Increase the level of economic efficiency of the Tourism System.

• Develop to the most advanced levels of the computer science and communication systems.

• Incorporate more foreign capital into the development of tourism.

• Extend the projection of the time horizon of the development of tourism to the year 2010, as well as adapt the organizational structures to the rhythms of development.

Structure

In order to fulfill the responsibilities assigned to it, the Ministry of Tourism adopted a light, flat and flexible structure.

The agency has two levels of leadership: the first is composed of the Minister and the deputy ministers; While the second is made up of the officials in charge of the different areas of work: Secretariat, Product Quality, Investments, Negotiations, International Relations, Legal, Development, Commercial, Informatics, Promotion and Advertising, Economic Analysis, and Administration, Staff and Charts .

It also has delegates in several territories, as a reflection of the different tourist centers in operation and development: Pinar del Río, Havana, Mayabeque, Matanzas, Cayo Largo del Sur, Cienfuegos, Sancti Spíritus, Ciego de Ávila, Camagüey , Las Tunas, Holguin, Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo.

For the training and improvement of the personnel of the sector, in order to guarantee the professionalism, quality and efficiency in the service, the country has the National Vocational Training System of Tourism (FORMATUR), which integrates 19 schools throughout the country.

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