Tourists to Cuba jumped by 15 percent in the first quarter of 2015, and the trend is expected to hold for the rest of the year, the country's Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero said.
Speaking at the opening of the 7th International Gourmet
Festival of Varadero, the island's leading seaside resort, Marrero did not
offer specific figures, but indicated visitor arrivals in the first four months
of the year "have been magnificent," communist youth daily Juventud
Rebelde reported on Thursday.
Cuba and the United States announced an agreement in
December to resume diplomatic ties and normalize relations, sparking a surge of
interest in travel to the Caribbean country, which has been largely off limits
to non-Cuban U.S. travelers for five decades.
A day after the Dec. 17 announcement, TripAdvisor, a
travel planning and booking website, reported that interest in travel to Cuba
spiked by nearly 300 percent in one day.
Marrero called on the country's tourism industry to strive
for excellence, saying there was a lot of global competition for tourism
dollars.
In 2014, Cuba drew some 3 million visitors, but tourism
officials are preparing for an expected wave of U.S. tourists once travel
restrictions imposed by Washington are lifted as ties with Cuba improve.
Tourism is Cuba's second-largest source of foreign
revenue, after the export of technical and medical services.
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