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• 09 / 25 / 2008

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The note of the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) indicates that the tourist complex, made up of the Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo resorts, currently holds 3 620 rooms in 12 hotels and four five-star villages.

The hotel facilities of the cays, some 530 kilometres east of Havana, suffered from minimum damages because of the hurricane; however the access causeway, the water pipelines and the communication means were seriously damaged.

Several services, indicates the report, were re-established in record time by construction and telecommunications brigades, which facilitated to recover the operation dynamics both at the airport and the hotels.

After the path of Ike, a flight from England arrived with tourists for Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo. In a few days the arrival is expected of other 800 European travelers.

 (PL)