Cuba Holidays News

Venezuelans to enjoy Cuba holidays

Caracas, Venezuela, September 1, - As part of the policy of social inclusion that Venezuela promotes, 120 bigger adults, contemporary adults and disabled people travelled recently to the island of Cuba, to enjoy during 6 days and 5 nights of the Social Tourism Plan that carries out the Ministry of the Popular Power for the Tourism (Mintur) in this holiday season. Those people belonging to the sta...

Radio Nacional de Venezuela News posted on 9/2/2010 2:56:39 PM

Rock Fest to take place in Havana

Havana, Cuba, September 1, - The Brutal Fest 2010: Grand Fiesta of Metal in Cuba that will take place from September 2 . 7 with rock concerts in Havana and Pinar del Rio is another enjoyable option for holidaymakers on Cuba holidays. The birth of the event took place two years ago, on May 31, 2008, when a dozen national metal groups were present at the Salon Rosado de La Tropical to promote the l...

Cuba Arte News News posted on 9/2/2010 2:56:39 PM

Cuba will participate in the Ibero-American Conference of Tourism Ministers

Cordova, Argentina, September 1, - Under the topic "Education and Social Inclusion in the Tourism", will take place in this Argentinean city the 10 Ibero-American Conference of Secretaries of Tourism, with the participation of the holders of twenty-two countries of Latin America and Europe, of Hispanic and Portuguese language. The event will take place in the Hotel Sheraton during days 1 and 2 of...

Hostel News News posted on 9/2/2010 2:56:39 PM

American holidaymakers with big expectations

Washington, USA, September 1, - The rumors that the American government will lift the travel restrictions to Cuba soon have the holidaymakers of the country imagining to receive the New Year 2011 in Havana or some spring holidays in Varadero. Although the American President, Barack Obama noticed on a possible easing of the travelling ban to Cuba, the experts indicate that it won't be so easy. ...

CNN Travel News News posted on 9/2/2010 2:56:39 PM

Cuba holidays among the offered prizes by Politours

Madrid, Spain, August 31, - Politours, pioneer travel agency in the opening of holiday destinations so much in Europe as in 'long hauls', continues rewarding its holidaymakers. This way, up to September 24, Politours wants to reward all the people who become fan of the page it has created in Facebook, offering three complimentary nights on four stars hotels in its well-known holiday destinations...

Expreso News News posted on 9/1/2010 12:56:13 PM

Cuba Summons Informatics Convention

Havana, Cuba, August 31, - Cuba calls to participate in the 14th International Convention and Fair Informatica 2011 to take place in Havana from February 7-11 next year. The expectations on the meeting Information Technologies (Informatica) 2011has evidenced the strong impact of the Cuban holiday industry in organisingcongresses, events and incentive travels. During an encounter of the Cuba Con...

Latin Press News News posted on 9/1/2010 12:56:13 PM

Havana Club Rum to launch a new brand

Havana, Cuba, August 31, - Always present in all Cuban hotels, tourist centres and holiday destinations, the famous Havana Club Rum will launch soon a new brand to the international market. "Seleccion de Maestros" (Master's Choice), is the name of this new rum of 43 degrees of alcohol in whose preparation participated all rum masters who chose the best barrels for its production. Sergio Valdes, ...

Cuba News Agency News posted on 9/1/2010 12:56:13 PM

Cuba holidays continue being promoted in China

Beijing, China, August 29, - The promotional tourist campaign "Authentic Cuba" was presented in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, where local authorities and representatives of the holiday industry knew the holiday offers of that Caribbean holiday destination. The participants in the encounter that took place in the Sunny Hotel of the capital of the southeastern province of Zhejiang received large in...

Latin Press News News posted on 8/30/2010 11:45:03 AM

Cuba extends airport terminal

Havana, Cuba, August 29, - The Cuban Government initiated the works to extend and to repair the terminal of the Havana's international airport that receives the flights coming from the United States. According to Cuban officials' sources, from the 1st of September the flights that regularly operate through the terminal number two of the airport "Jose Marti" will be transferred temporarily to anot...

EFE News News posted on 8/30/2010 11:45:03 AM

Aeromexico expands services to Cuba

Havana, Cuba, August 29, - The Mexican company Aeromexico informed here that it is operating since August 1, regular flights from Havana to Mexico City via Cancun and Merida to enlarge the international connectivity to its passengers. In an official statement the company indicated that any traveller who look for travelling to the destinations of Aeromexico in Mexico, Center and South America, Eu...

El Informador Mexico News posted on 8/30/2010 11:45:03 AM

New offers at Playa Pesquero Hotel

Holguin, Cuba, August 26, - The Playa Pesquero Hotel, located in the homonymous splendid beach, presents its new offers of services and programs of incentives for its holidaymakers. As it was given to know by the hotel, among the new offers there are the Cuban Day and Salsa Boulevard that will take place every Thursday in the afternoon and includes Hors d'oeuvres, Cocktails, and Great Cuban music...

Playa Pesquero Hotel News posted on 8/26/2010 12:44:21 PM

A good summer for Cuban tourism

Havana, Cuba, August 26, - Considering the results of the month of July concerning travellers' arrivals, it is possible to predict that summer holiday's season will be successful. It has to be said that July's tourism figures assisted reaching the number of 1.596.166 foreign holidaymakers that arrived to Cuba in the first seven months of the year. The figure represents 22.983 holidaymakers more ...

Cuba Travel News News posted on 8/26/2010 12:08:24 PM

American governor in favor of easing the travelling to Cuba

Washington, USA, August 26, - The United States should easing the trips to Cuba for all Americans "earlier than late" affirmed the governor from New Mexico, Bill Richardson who heads a commercial mission in the island. "I would recommend that the Obama Administration takes those steps that send the message that we are loosen the travel restrictions, so the academic and religious leaders will be a...

AFP News News posted on 8/26/2010 11:12:32 AM

Cuba among the most growing holiday destinations for Russian holidaymakers

Moscow, Russia, August 25, - Rosturizm together with ATOR have made a rating of the most popular countries and most growing holiday destinations among Russian holidaymakers. Alexander Radkov, deputy head of Federal Agency for Tourism, and Vladimir Kantorovich, first vice president of ATOR, presented their statistics in June 2010. According to experts, a record number of Russian holidaymakers may...

DT Cuba News News posted on 8/25/2010 11:32:47 AM

Melia Cohiba Hotel will welcome Edutourism International Conference

Havana Cuba, August 25,- The Melia Cohiba Hotel will host the First Annual Conference on Sustainable Tourism that will take place in Havana, Cuba, well known holiday destination by its splendid geography and vibrant and excellent educational system from November 8-9. In the last decades Cuba has concentrated in tourism and education being an ideal holiday place for Sustainable Edutourism. Organ...

Cuba Web News News posted on 8/25/2010 11:20:12 AM

Santiago de Cuba's historical centre revives

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, August 25, - Due to its architectural, social, historical and cultural values, the historical centre of this city receives the visit of hundreds of local and international holidaymakers every day. In order to maintain the place in the best possible condition, a restoring work has started and advances today after its 495 years-old of being founded, so the city could arrive ...

Latin Press News News posted on 8/25/2010 11:07:10 AM

Cuba is the number one international holiday destination for Spanish holidaymakers.

Madrid, Spain, August 24, - After an intense holiday summer activity, in which the Spaniards have made million displacements by land, sea and air, Yahoo! has wanted to find out which have been the ways used by them to choose their summer holiday places and how they planned their trips. Trying to find out the answers, Yahoo! news made a survey to more than 5,600 Spanish people to know how they or...

Arbol de Noticias News posted on 8/24/2010 10:18:28 AM

Most Americans support the lifting of Cuba travel ban

Washington, USA, August 24, - The American President, Barack Obama, has sent several probe balloons on the possibility of easing the exchanges with Cuba, maintaining the embargo but raising the restrictions of George W. Bush on trips of studies, sport and visiting relatives. According to recent surveys, the public opinion is in favor (a 71% approved restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba three...

ABC News News posted on 8/24/2010 10:06:41 AM

Peruvian holidaymakers prefer Varadero

Lima, Peru, August 24, - The trips of Peruvians abroad would grow more than 15 percent at the closing of 2010, mainly, due to business trips and also for the population's bigger purchasing power that prefers to take holidays outside the country, expressed the president of Viajes Club, Hector Velit. "Peruvian holidaymaker's travel abroad has been increased enough this year; travel agencies has su...

La Republica Peru News posted on 8/24/2010 10:00:04 AM

Cuban tourism experience to be applied in Venetur hotels

Caracas, Venezuela, August 23, - Representatives of the Ministry of the Popular Power for Tourism (Mintur) and from the Cuban Centre of Formation and Investigation in Tourism (Formatur) sustained an encounter in Havana, with the intention to analyze the final proposal of implementation of the Regional Centres of Tourist qualification (CCTR) in Venezuela. According to the executive director of th...

Radio Mundial News posted on 8/24/2010 9:25:28 AM

Hotel Nacional de Cuba to host international fruit culture event

Havana, Cuba, August 23, - Cuba continues developing the tourism modality of events and incentive trips incorporating encounters of important international repercussion. In such a sense, some 200 experts from Brazil, Spain, Cuba and other nations are expected to participate in the III International Symposium of Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Culture that will take place in Havana next October, in...

Latin Press News News posted on 8/24/2010 9:25:28 AM

Travelers' arrivals to Cuba continue increasing

Havana, Cuba, August 23, - According to a report published today by the National Office of Statistical of the Island, 22 thousand 983 holidaymakers more coming from different nations of the world chose this Caribbean country as their holiday destination. Cuba received almost one million 600 thousand foreign holidaymakers from January to July 2010, what represents an increment of 1, 5% compared w...

ANSA Latina News posted on 8/24/2010 9:25:28 AM

Circuba 2010 continues attracting public

Havana, Cuba, August 23, - In spite of having finished officially one week ago, the echoes of the circus celebration, Circuba 2010, stay and the Carp "Trompoloco", seat of the shows, remains crowded without caring the dense and humid heat of the summer. Before the insistent popular demand, the circus shows will be prolonged up to September 5 duplicating their functions on Wednesday and Thursday ...

Cuba Vision News News posted on 8/24/2010 9:25:28 AM

The American Ballet Theatre will shine in Cuban Ballet Festival

Havana, Cuba, August 22, - The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) of New York will travel to Cuba in November and will be one of the main courses of the outstanding international festival presided over by the prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Alonso. "I would like to say how honoured I feel ", said Rachel Moore, executive director of the ABT when announcing the presentations that will take place in thi...

El Nuevo Herald News posted on 8/23/2010 1:21:03 PM

Keys of Villa Clara dazzle Argentinean holidaymakers

Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 22, - If it is not the paradise, surely it looks like. Not only for being a unique landscape where greens and blues are in all their shades, but also because the kilometres of beaches of the Keys of Villa Clara, in Cuba, are still there for being explored, because the tourist operation just begins. Last 9 of July a new flight tourist operation began from Buenos Air...

Rosario News News posted on 8/23/2010 1:21:03 PM

Hotel Presidente hosted tasting ceremony of drinks and cigars

Havana, Cuba, August 19, - Before the incessant rise of Cuba's holidays industry, the Cuban barmen confirmed, in this capital, their practical and educational qualification, ratifying the strength of the sector in international scenarios. During the celebration of the Balcony Bayamanaco (ceremony of tasting and linking of remarkable drinks and cigars), corresponding to the month of August, in th...

Habana en Linea News posted on 8/20/2010 10:24:12 AM

Paths in favour of nature tourism

Pinar del Rio, Cuba, August 18, - The organization of contemplative paths allows to admire autochthonous and endemic species of the flora and the fauna of the county of Pinar del Rio, at the time it facilitates the implementation of diverse programs of nature tourism which begin to be part of the preference of the present-day holidaymakers. A good part of those routes are located in Vinales, Sor...

Cuba News Agency News posted on 8/20/2010 10:24:12 AM

Colombian airline to start flights to Havana

Bogota, Colombia, August 19, - Colombian airline Aero Republica plans to start services to Cuba and Mexico in October as the Colombian carrier focuses on international growth. According to reliable sources, Aero Republica will initially serve the Bogota-Havana route once per week on Saturdays, from 2 October. Although it is unclear which aircraft type will be used on this route it seems it wil...

Flights Global News News posted on 8/20/2010 10:24:12 AM

Matanzas's Carnival Begins

Matanzas, Cuba, August 18, - Rumba, salsa and Cuban rhythms will occupy again the streets and avenues of the city of Matanzas from the 19 to 22 of this month, when neighbors and visitors, including holidaymakers, participate in the Matanzas Carnival 2010. With the sound of the drums of the "comparsas" (large group of dancers dancing and travelling on the streets) will begin the traditional Cuban ...

Radio Havana Cuba News posted on 8/19/2010 11:45:27 AM

Hotel Barcelo Habana Ciudad to be among the best of the Cuban capital

Havana, Cuba, August 18, - The most recent acquisition of the Spanish hotel chain Barcelo in the island, the Barcelo Habana Ciudad, hopes to transform into one of the preferred hotels by holidaymakers thanks to the comfort, the quality and the excellence of its services. Still smelling new, the Barcelo Havana City is a five stars hotel ideal for Havana holidays located in Miramar, a calm and excl...

Expreso News News posted on 8/19/2010 11:45:27 AM