Mexico will be the Guest of Honor at Cuban Tourism Fair
- Submitted by: manso
- Travel and Tourism
- 03 / 01 / 2011
2011.02.28 - 20:03:13 / radiorebelde.Havana, Cuba.- Mexico will be the guest country at the 31st edition of the International Tourism Fair -the main tourism market on the island-, which will take place from May 2 through the 7 at Havana’s Morro-Cabaña Complex.
Alicia Perez, representative of the Cuban Tourism Ministry (MINTUR) in Mexico, explained that the meeting will be attended by over 300 tour operators of Europe, Asia and the Americas.
This edition will include an evening dedicated to Mexico, with a banquet in honor of that ation, composed of typical dishes, the Xinhua news agency reports, reproducing statements by Perez to that country’s press.
The initiative is sponsored by the MINTUR office in Mexico, the Mexican embassy to Havana, the Mexican Secretariat of Tourism, the Mexican Council for Tourism Promotion, and the governments of the states of Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo.
Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, Russia, China and Japan will be among the countries sending their tour operators, considered as some the most important in the world, added the source.
This 31st edition of the event will also be dedicated to multi-destinations, and to the capital as the most significant one, which has, among its attractions, the historic area of Old Havana, declared a World Heritage Site.
The increase in international tourism is one of the island’s main goals, which hopes to receive two million 700 thousand vacationers in 2011.
This destination, one of the most important in the Caribbean, closed 2010 with a 4.2 percent increase, after welcoming over two million and a half foreign visitors.
At the end of January, the island registered the record figure of 296,222 international tourist arrivals, a 15.9 percent increase as compared to the same period of the previous year, according to the National Office of Statistics.(ACN)
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