Horizontes Hotels has officially opened the Palma Real Hotel, a 466-room four-star facility leased to Spanish group Hotetur.
Horizontes’ marketing director Maria del Carmen Orellana told Caribbean News that over 70 percent of the chain’s rooms has undergone an all-out refurbishment, and this is definitely putting the Cuban group back in the market’s top tier.
Cuba closed the first quarter of the ongoing year as the number-one Caribbean destination among Canadian, Italian and Spanish tourists, and finished a hefty runner-up for German travelers, two positions that make clear the island nation’s coming of age as far as tourism is concerned.
Air France has just set up shop in Varadero as the Tourism Convention is now underway in that famed Cuban beach.
The goal of the French airline’s new office in the largest tourist circuit of the island nation is to provide service to tour operators and ease plane ticket sales. Air France has been flying to Cuba for over twenty years with four weekly flights landing in and taking off from Havana’s international airport.
A 371-seat 330-200 Airbus will this month join Cubana de Aviacion’s fleet to connect Havana with the cities of Madrid, London and Paris.
Marketing director of Sol Meliá Gabriel Garcia walked in the Plenary Hall of the Plaza America Conference Center yesterday to present the Sol Meliá product. At the onset of his presentation, Mr. Garcia went through all the hits his company has scored since it began operating in Cuba and praised convention planners for drawing a bead on the tourist circuit of Holguin and incentive travel.
With a view to advertise the upcoming World Tourism Expo, Wendy Hesketh is attending the Tourism Convention. Mrs. Hesketh is the planner of the aforesaid exhibit scheduled to take place next September in Mexico.
In a brief interview with Caribbean News, Mrs. Hesketh said the idea behind this effort is to lure international purchasers and boost up the Central American, Caribbean and Mexican regions as highly attractive tourist destinations.