It’s official: Cuba adopts new measures for domestic travelers

The new restrictions will apply to Cubans arriving at the airports of the tourist areas of Varadero and Cayo Coco, where they will have to go through a mandatory 14-day isolation in hotel facilities

By |2021-07-19T17:42:59-04:0019 de July de 2021|Outstanding news, Tourism|0 Comments

Tourists trickle back to Havana despite tough Covid-19 protocols

Cuba is slowly opening Havana and other cities to tourism after doing the same with beach resorts in November, eager to breathe life into the devastated industry shuttered last March by the pandemic.

By |2021-01-31T21:08:41-04:0031 de January de 2021|Tourism|0 Comments

Mexico travel agencies to start charter flights to Cuba

Photo: Mintur Mexico's wholesale travel agencies will start operating charter flights to Cuba, confirmed exclusively to Prensa Latina engineer Jose Manuel Covarrubias, executive of Viñales Tour. This tour operator is the main manager of those flights that will begin on March 28 and will extend in this first stage until October with two weekly frequencies, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and will cover the Mexico City-Havana-Mexico City route. He explained that authorization process by the Institute of Civil Aviation of Cuba (IACC) and the Ministry of Tourism is now ready, which is very important for Viñales Tour, one of the pioneer agencies in Mexico in the issuance of tourism to Cuba. Covarrubias told Prensa Latina the charter flights will be on state-of-the-art rented aircrafts to the Mexican company Viva Aereobus. It is Airbus A-320 Neo equipped with 186 seats and large load capacity. Source: Prensa Latina agency

By |2020-02-22T20:48:30-04:0022 de February de 2020|Transportation|0 Comments

Point of view: More than 620,000 Cubans living abroad visited the country in 2019

Photo: TTC Published by Granma International Despite measures implemented by the United States government since the end of 2017, intended to limit bilateral relations between the two countries -including the suspension of consular services in Havana; the expulsion of 17 diplomatic officials from our embassy in Washington, using unjustifiable and politically motivated pretexts; and recently the suspension of flights to nine destinations in Cuba - ties between the émigré community and the homeland have not been eliminated. This is confirmed by the fact that a total of 623,831 Cubans living abroad visited the country in 2019, "evidence of the strengthening of ties between Cuba and its citizens," said Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who added on his Twitter account that 552,816, of that total, came from the United States. Hostile U.S. actions, which remain in effect, hinder the normal flow of Cubans traveling abroad and those traveling to Cuba, [...]

By |2020-01-12T02:38:03-04:0012 de January de 2020|Tourism|0 Comments

Barrio Los Sitios, the First of Extramural Havana

Photo: 123RF By: Pedro Pérez Rivero As we are preparing for the celebration of the half millennium of the township of San Cristóbal de La Habana, the oldest images we usually remember are related to the historic center, declared a World Heritage Site in 1982. However, it is fair to recognize the existence of another colonial Havana, outside the wall that protected the city from the 17th to the 19th centuries. One of the first extramural settlements was that of Guadalupe, built around a hermitage from 1716 dedicated to this Catholic saint. Therefore, that rural village can be considered within Havana's founding historicity. Even more if you take into account that it was the intramural neighbors’ main food supplier, since it had abundant farming sites; hence its later name of Los Sitios (The Sites). The numerous vegetable gardens were tended to mostly by free blacks, even those who arrived [...]

By |2020-01-04T20:55:30-04:004 de January de 2020|Outstanding news, Tourism|0 Comments
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