• Submitted by: manso
• Business and Economy
• 07 / 31 / 2011

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2011.07.31 - 08:14:14 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu / New Investments in Varadero Havana, Cuba.- Varadero, which is the main tourist resort in Cuba, exhibits a high-level hotel infrastructure and continues its plan of investments in order to increase its current tourist capacity up to 18 thousand rooms.

This region that represents the 36% of the hotel-nation infrastructure, has announced the inauguration of the Juan Gualberto Gómez airport, set and expanded to offer a higher-level service to its passengers.

The new building works that are planned to be carried out during the current year and the next one in this tourist resort located in the peninsula of Matanzas, include the Patriarca hotel´s final construction stage which will have up to 400 hundred rooms, as well as a similar construction process to a hotel located at the ending part of the aforementioned peninsula. Moreover, the construction of the   Mediterranean hotel with 390 rooms, the five starts International hotel with 890 rooms to be be built on the same spot of its predecessor, which will be demolished in order to build a most modern and comfortable hotel, are also part of the project.

Regarded as a notable change for the future, the Gaviota marina´s extension is the current work in progress on the area, which will raise up to 1200 its dock capacity, besides, it is part of the investment on the area, a hotel, a Mediterranean hotel, and facilities to increase the marina´s services.

The local Varadero´s Plan Director (main plan), which is updated every single year, is the result of a study in which representatives of the main local tourist enterprises participated and defined that the territory has the capacity for over 27 thousand rooms, which confirms Varadero´s high-level tourist potential for the country. By José Miguel Solís. Translated by: Juan Carlos Caballero Puig