Havana, Cuba: Cuban authorities join today the celebration of World Tourism Day with strategies focused on the diversification of the proposals of the travel industry and the care of the environment, Prensa Latina publishes.
Timely, the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur) of this Island expressed the willingness to support the transformations in recreational matters, through the protection of flora and fauna, and a variety of options that include culture, congresses, nautical, nature and circuits trips.
Tourism in Cuba grows and develops, betting on the use of new information technologies in the necessary process of digital transformations of the tourist destination.
They emphasize that strengthening the connectivity infrastructures of tourism facilities for management in these media is an immediate task.
Cuba has more than 70 thousand hotel rooms in some 300 establishments distributed throughout the country, preferably of four and five star categories.
One of the reasons for celebrating this Day is the 500th anniversary of the foundation of Havana (November 16).
In addition, and despite pressures from the United States against the tourism in the Island, this area develops and example of that is the sustained figure of just over four million foreign visitors per year.
Events of nature and congress, and underwater photography, accompany the development and knowledge plans of this sector in which tour operators and travel agents from around the world have their sights set.
Precisely, during this day, the 12th International Nature Tourism Event (Turnat 2019) takes place in central-southern Cuba, with the presence of experts from 18 countries interested in strengthening ties with the Island and its authorities.


