• Submitted by: manso
• Travel and Tourism
• 10 / 29 / 2010

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Cuba was invited to the event by the Association for the Promotion of Exchanges between Latin America and Asia/Pacific from Macao, the www.cubaminrex.cu Web site reported.

The exhibition was in charge of Cuba’s General Consulate and included reflections by Revolution leader Fidel Castro, tourist brochures and leaflets with information on business and investment opportunities in the Caribbean island, which attracted the attention of visitors to the event.

At the Fair, Cuba’s consul general in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, Felix Raul Rojas, made a presentation of his country’s tourist offers, which included the campaign Genuine Cuba.

The Caribbean island is promoted as a tourist destination by way of a video on places of interest, shown in internal television circuits of several subway lines in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chongqing.

In 2003 Cuba obtained the category of Tourist Destination given by the government of the People’s Republic of China, which turned it into the first country in Latin America to obtain it.

Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero, who visited the Asian nation in February, pointed out then that 600 Chinese citizens traveled to the island in 1994; 3,000 in 1999, and 12, 352 in 2009, adds the information published by the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s Web site.

Source: ACN