General View of a Spanish cruise ship entering Havana Port in November 2010. Efe. By AFP. HAVANA. Cruise vessels from Great Britain, Canada and Russia will join Cuba’s tourist industry in 2011, as part of a program to diversify options offered to tourists on the island, an official of the branch reported on Sunday. An English cruise ship is going to have five entrances of two nights to the Havana port.">General View of a Spanish cruise ship entering Havana Port in November 2010. Efe. By AFP. HAVANA. Cruise vessels from Great Britain, Canada and Russia will join Cuba’s tourist industry in 2011, as part of a program to diversify options offered to tourists on the island, an official of the branch reported on Sunday. An English cruise ship is going to have five entrances of two nights to the Havana port.">

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Great Britain, Canada and Russia to send cruise ships to Cuba in 2011


General View of a Spanish cruise ship entering Havana Port in November 2010. Efe. By AFP. HAVANA. Cruise vessels from Great Britain, Canada and Russia will join Cuba’s tourist industry in 2011, as part of a program to diversify options offered to tourists on the island, an official of the branch reported on Sunday. 

An English cruise ship is going to have five entrances of two nights to the Havana port. It is a first class vessel named Thomson Dream, with a capacity of 1,800 passengers, said José Manuel Bisbé, the Commercial Director of Tourism. 

In statements made to the Opciones Weekly Edition, Bisbé announced that “works are being made in order to have a Canadian cruise with a circumnavigation program to Cuba, which will be a new offer for next winter 2011-2012 on the island as a main tourist destination of Canada in the Caribbean.”

Canada appears to be the first country sending tourists to Cuba with 914,000 and nearly a million tourists from that Northern country is expected to arrive in Cuba, according to Bisbé, who is also expecting this market to close year 2010, with a growth between 3 and 4 per cent.

“So far, Air Canada and Cubana de Aviación air lines were covering the route between the two countries but next year we are going to have direct flights from Sunwing and Air Transat and new possibilities are being opened for Canadian clients” said the official.

Moreover, a Russian cruise ship will begin its operations in Cuba before the year comes to an end to give a weekly tour throughout the island’s coastlines and a stop over is going to touch Jamaican land, it is a collaboration reached between the Ministry of Transportation of the two countries, Juventud Rebelde Daily reported Tourism is the second activity of the Cuban economy, followed by the professionals’ service abroad  with more than two million visitors a year and a fund raising of some $2,000 millions

View more about Cuba cruise travels at http://www.cubacruisetravel.com


Source: //www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/12/20/856618/

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