Cuba Holidays News

Montecristo Golf Cup to take place again in Varadero

Havana, Cuba, January 26, - The renowned Cuban holiday destination of Varadero will once again welcome the fourth International Golf Tournament Montecristo Cup, an international event that takes place every year since 2009 at the Varadero Golf Club. The above was given to know here by the organizers of the event who indicated that this time it will take place from April 19 to 21. The Vice Presid...

Cuba Travel News News posted on 1/27/2012 4:09:27 PM

Cuban city could be declared a World Heritage Site

Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, January 26, - The Commission of National Monuments in Cuba evaluates the inclusion of the Cuban city of Sancti Spiritus, founded by the Spanish conquerors in 1514, among the proposals of the country to the consideration of UNESCO for its possible acceptance as Cultural Heritage of Humanity. According to Robert Vitlloch, director of the Historian Office of the city, which wi...

Radio Havana Cuba News posted on 1/27/2012 3:58:13 PM

American travel agency receives approval for Cuba Cultural Tour

Havana, Cuba, January 25, - The American travel agency Collette Vacations announced having received authorization from the U.S. government to proceed with its planned Cultural trip to Cuba. The program, named "Rediscover Cuba: A Cultural Exploration tour", has been prepared under the conditions of a People-to-People license that has been granted to Collette vacations by American authorities in ch...

Travel Market Report News posted on 1/27/2012 9:27:03 AM

Cuban holiday industry continues growing

Havana, Cuba, January 25, - The Cuban holiday industry is today one of the most important economic areas of the country, according to official reports and opinions of the analysts who look favorably the potential of the sector. To support that criterion, there is the most recent data of this industry provided by the Minister of Tourism, Manuel Marrero, during his participation in the Internationa...

Radio Havana Cuba News posted on 1/26/2012 2:32:50 PM

Tourist offer highly demanded by holidaymakers

Cayo, Coco, Ciego de Avila, Cuba January 25, - The tourist offer "Your excursion with me", which integrates the tourist product that promotes and sells the agency Cubanacan Viajes of Cayo Coco, located in the Cuban central county of Ciego de Avila, has had an important demand from the part of the travellers that enjoy their holidays in the tourist destination of Jardines del Rey. More than 11 000...

Tribuna de la Habana News posted on 1/26/2012 11:19:16 AM

Renovation actions take place in colonial Cuban Villa

Trinidad, Cuba, January 25, - Two years before arriving to its half millennium of existence, Trinidad, the third village been founded in Cuba by the Spanish conquerors, receives the benefits of an ambitious program of renovations of housings, cultural institutions and properties of patrimonial value, developed by the ministries of Culture and Tourism, and the Office of the Conservative of that ter...

Escambray Digital Newspaper News posted on 1/26/2012 9:01:15 AM

Cuba's holiday destination receives new flight from Argentina

Ciego de Avila, Cuba, January 24 - The addition of a second weekly flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the international airport of Cayo Coco, located in this province, makes the South American country the third largest holidaymakers' emitter market to the tourist destination of Jardines del Rey. The new charter flight has a capacity of 300 passengers and its itinerary will operate until nex...

Latin Press News News posted on 1/25/2012 12:26:38 PM

Santa Lucia Beach announces International Festival 2012

Camaguey, Cuba, January 24 - The Cuban holiday destination of Santa Lucia beach, located in this province, announces the celebration of the nineteenth edition of the Santa Lucia Beach International Festival, co - sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and the Cubanacan Group, which will take place from February 13 . 17. Characterized by a unique "Sabor a Cuba" (Cuba Flavor) that holiday destination...

Cuba Travel News News posted on 1/25/2012 11:16:10 AM

Cubanacan Travel agency presents new tourist offers in Ciego de Avila

Ciego de Avila, Cuba, January 23, - The Cubanacan Travel Agency branch in this Cuban central province, is promoting new extra hotel tourist options in order to increase the interest for the attractions of the territory and the holiday destination of Jardines del Rey, in the current high tourism season. Lessner Gomez, commercial executive of that tourism group in the county, said that among the ne...

Invasor Newspaper News posted on 1/24/2012 7:32:05 PM

Direct flights between Washington and Havana to begin in March

Washington, USA, January 23, - The President of the American agency Island Travel and Tours, William Hauf, announced here that direct flights between Washington and Havana will start next March 21, it is to say one week before the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba. The first flight connecting the capitals of the United States and Cuba will facilitate the trips to the Caribbean island of organi...

USA Today News posted on 1/24/2012 3:56:03 PM

Travel options in Miami for Pope's visit to Cuba

Miami, Florida, USA . January 23, - The Archdiocese of Miami will offer four options to travel to Cuba for Cuban Catholics and other nationalities living in South Florida who want to attend the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the island from March 26 to 28. The papal visit coincides with the celebrations for the 400 years of discovery of the image of the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, the patrones...

El Nuevo Herald News posted on 1/24/2012 12:15:12 PM

Partagas Cigars House increases sales

Havana, Cuba, January 22, - The world renowned Partagas Cigars House, founded in 1991 and with clients from all over the world thanks to the prestige of its product, reached in the recently concluded 2011 a significant increase in overall sales. As explained Abel Exposito Diaz, director of that institution belonging to the Grupo Empresarial Tiendas Caracol (Caracol Stores Managerial Group), the i...

Tribuna de la Habana News posted on 1/23/2012 11:16:56 AM

Havanatur to expand businesses with Mexican airline

Havana, Cuba, January 22, - Mexican airline Interjet has shown its interest to increase its links with the Cuban holiday industry in order support the development of tourism, as evidenced the recent visit of the managers of the air company, headed by its general director, Jose Luis Garza. An official statement released by the Group of International Tour Operators and Travel Agencies, Havanatur SA...

Cuba Travel News News posted on 1/22/2012 2:03:17 PM

Tourist Information Office promotes new offers in Cuba's holiday destination

Havana, Cuba, January 22, - Matanzas, the province where is located the main holiday destination of Cuba, Varadero, applies today a new information system in order to promote visits to little-visited tourist attractions. Jose Manso, director of the Tourism Information Office, INFOTUR in the territory, said that at the moment, places like the Palmar de Junco, and the Cienaga de Zapata, are among t...

Latin Press News News posted on 1/22/2012 12:35:10 PM

Cuban Tourism achieved its goal of tourist arrivals in 2011

Havana, Cuba, January 19, - Cuba's holiday industry achieved its goal last year of reaching 2 million 700 thousand international holidaymakers received in its tourist destinations, what makes Cuban authorities to predict that the sector will maintain in an upward spiral in the current year. In this regard, Cuban tourism, which for eighth consecutive time exceeds the figure of two million holidaym...

Cuba News Agency News posted on 1/21/2012 5:16:04 PM

Habaguanex Company for a better tourist year

Havana, Cuba January 19, - The tourist company Habaguanex S.A., attached to the Office of the Historian of Havana, calls for better management in 2012 and the consolidation of its tourist offers. In that sense, Habaguanex plans to face diverse challenges like the opening of its 20th hotel, named El Terral, whose opening is foreseen for the middle of the year, according to the information provided...

Tribuna de la Habana News posted on 1/20/2012 7:02:26 PM

Three Cuban dancers are selected among the best in the world

Havana, Cuba, January 19, - The dancers of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba (BNC), Viengsay Valdes, Osiel Gounod and Grettel Morejon, have been selected among the best in the world during 2011, according to the selection made by the specialized and highly recognized U.S. publication, Dance Magazine, prestigious worldwide. The editor in chief of the magazine, Wendy Perron, who made up the list that was...

Cuba Arte News News posted on 1/20/2012 1:56:04 PM

Breaking of a world record took place at Barcelo Solymar Arenas Blancas Resort

Varadero, Cuba, January 18, - A young Cuban athlete of only 16 years, Orlando Romero Sixto, broke the world record of touched-ball for uninterrupted time from a sitting position. The event took place last December 28 in the Barcelo Solymar Arenas Blancas Resort of Varadero with the presence of sportive specialists, tourist enjoying holidays in the facility, and public in general that support the...

Barcelo Solymar News News posted on 1/19/2012 7:22:18 PM

Cuba hotels are rewarded by Neckermann Reisen in FITUR

Madrid, Spain, January 18, - The German tour operator Neckermann Reisen, one of the big ones of the holiday sector at international level, took advantage of its participation in the current International Fair of Tourism, FITUR, in Madrid, to reward four Cuban hotels. Neckermann's Primo 2011 Awards are granted to the one hundred favorite establishments at world level for the clients of the company...

Caribbean News Digital News posted on 1/19/2012 6:37:19 PM

Villa Cojimar hotel on the road again

Ciego de Avila, Cuba, January 18, - Cayo Guillermo's Villa Cojimar, located in the holiday destination of Jardines del Rey reopened its doors last December 20 completely renovated after a construction process that took it closed for several months. The reopening date was chosen to coincide with the 16th anniversary of the installation and the beginning of the tourist winter season, and for the su...

Cuba Travel News News posted on 1/19/2012 5:02:19 PM

Minister of tourism heads Cuban delegation to Fitur

Madrid, Spain, January 17, - The Minister of Tourism of Cuba, Manuel Marrero, heads the Cuban delegation that attends today the International Fair of Tourism of Spain, FITUR. Representatives of Cuban hotel chains, travel agencies, officials and tourism professionals as well as of the Cuban airline, Cubana de Aviacion, participate in the appointment in Madrid, to commercialize and to promote the C...

Caribbean News Digital News posted on 1/18/2012 6:01:25 PM

Visit of the Pope Benedict XVI elevates selling of holiday packages to Cuba

Cancun, Mexico, January 17, - The confirmed visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Guanajuato and Cuba, on March 23 and 26 respectively, begins to raise expectations in the purchasing of travel packages, mostly to Cuba, as travel agencies begin to report an increment of sales of up to 25%. Fernando Rodriguez Gonzalez, manager of the Active Travel agency, reported that structured programs are already set t...

Spise News News posted on 1/18/2012 3:04:24 PM

Development of environmental rehabilitation takes place in Cuba's north coast

Ciego de Avila, Cuba, January 17, - In order to maintain the environmental health of the region, specialists of the Center for Coastal Ecosystem Research (CIEC) in Cayo Coco, work in the ecological restoration of Laguna Larga, located in one of the main development tourist areas of the Jardines del Rey holiday destination. Adam Zuniga, director of CIEC, told this news agency that the project is a...

Latin Press News News posted on 1/18/2012 1:28:17 PM

New Edition of Cigar Festival will host delegates from 60 countries

Havana, Cuba, January 16, - At times of arriving to its 520 year of being discovered by the Spaniards, the tobacco plant gives to Cuba, culture, history, trade and the world's most attractive meeting for cigar lovers. That meeting is the XIV Cigar Festival of Havana, scheduled this year from February 27 till March 2, with the possible assistance of a thousand delegates coming from at least 60 cou...

Latin Press News News posted on 1/18/2012 8:25:24 AM

The Casa Granda Hotel turns 98 years

Santiago de Cuba, January 16, - The Casa Granda Hotel of this eastern city that has 98 years of being built, still keeps the attractiveness and elegance of its eclectic architecture, which combined with its excellent services places it in the preference of many foreign holidaymakers, particularly from Europe. Since its opening in January 1914, the building has the privilege of sharing the Cespede...

Cuba Travel News News posted on 1/17/2012 11:51:02 AM

The New York Times recommended visiting Cuba this year

Havana, Cuba, January 16,- The New York Times recently published a list of 45 holiday destinations worldwide as recommending places to visit in 2012, where in the tenth place, appears Havana, Cuba. According to the newspaper, that values in a special way Cuba's cultural offerings and tourist services, "the Cuban capital is once again available to Americans," and asserts that "all that stands betw...

Cuba Debate News News posted on 1/17/2012 10:28:15 AM

Santiago de Cuba welcomes cruise season

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, January 16, - The arrival few days ago of the Braemar cruise to the coast of this province with about 900 British holidaymakers on board, mostly of the third age, began this modality of tourism in Cuba in the current holiday season. Passengers disembarked on a good sunny morning and enjoy several options that include journeys through historical, cultural and heritage sites...

Cuba News Agency News posted on 1/16/2012 12:43:38 PM

The House of the Hundred Doors opens again

Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, January 15 - After a capital restoration that kept it closed for several months, the House of the Hundred Doors, one of the eighteenth-century landmark buildings of this city, declared National Monument and founded by the Spanish conqueror Diego Velazquez in 1514, opened its doors to join the country's historical heritage. This mansion, which, without doubt, constitutes a t...

Latin Press News News posted on 1/15/2012 7:30:13 PM

Tourism industry in Ciego de Avila continues improving

Ciego de Avila, Cuba, January 14, - The electrification and plumbing system in Playa Flamenco, the restoring of "Ranchones" and nearly 80 percent of the 4768 hotel rooms and villas belonging to the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) and the Gaviota hotel group, are measures taken to deal with the current winter season in the northern coast of the central Cuban province of Ciego de Avila. They also incl...

Invasor Newspaper News posted on 1/14/2012 4:19:06 PM

Cuba will host major international events in 2012

Havana, Cuba, January 12, - The development of tourism of events, congresses and incentives continues being a priority for Cuba's holiday industry. In this sense, in the current year, Cuba will host numerous exhibitions and events focusing on areas such as public health, education, engineering, construction, law and culture, which will be attended by important figures and specialists of Cuba and ...

Tribuna de la Habana News posted on 1/13/2012 7:39:02 PM