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At the International Trade Fair in Cuba this week, the wealthy Persian Gulf nation of Qatar announced that the Qatar Diar Real Estate Investment Company will build the the five star “Gran Paraiso” hotel on Cayo Largo, a small tourist island off the south coast of Cuba.
This hotel may be under construction in 2010 and open in 2012 with up to 450 rooms and 60 luxury villas.
Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
The project will be a joint venture, as are all hotels and resorts in Cuba, between the Cuban government owned Gran Caribe and the Qatari…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
Barcelo Hotels and Resorts opened its fourth hotel in Cuba, this time on Cayo Santa Maria. The hotel is called Barcelo Cayo Santa Maria. It is a five star hotel with 624 rooms and will be marketed under the exclusive trademark of Barcelo Premium.
This hotel is nicely situated at the waterfront beach area and is part of a comprehensive plan to develop a hotel network across the island of Cuba for Barcelo. Cayo Santa Maria is rapidly developing as a major tourist destination in Cuba. It is one…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
On October 28, I asked if Cayo Largo was closed because I found some scrolling text on the main tourist website that “all hotels will reopen in November”.
Today I get an email from the Sol Melia newsletter containing this landing page for the newly reopened Sol Pelicano in Cayo Largo Hotel.
I found it odd that NONE of the text used the word “reopened” or the like or even gave any indication that the hotel was closed. So, I figure this is a sly way to quietly reopen a…
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Ventura de Jesus | Granma.cu
Cuba’s top beach resort has received more than 700,000 tourists to date and the conditions exist for the year to end with a total of one million visitors for the first time in the history of tourism in that province.
“Varadero has been strengthening its position as a destination,” emphasized Amado Acosta Hernández, Ministry of Tourism delegate in Matanzas province. “We have maintained progressive growth since the second semester of 2007 and, specifically this year, we are seeing the best results in overall indicators, although we know we can be still more efficient.”
Varadero has…
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Lourdes Pichs Rodriguez | Ahora.cu
Major investments to improve the tourist facilities of Guardalavaca and to expand the capabilities of city hotels will be undertaken in the province of Holguin due to the increasing demand of tourism travel, announced Manuel Marrero, Minister of Tourism in Cuba.
For this year there are plans to build the Hotel Ordóñez in the municipality of Gibara , and also begin the construction of two small hotels in the city of Holguin , one being the “Libertad” Hotel for the Islazul chain, for both national and foreign tourism.
The construction of the “La caballeriza” Hotel,…
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Cuban News Agency
Cuba’s tourism company Habaguanex S.A. announced the opening of the Marques de Prado Ameno hotel in Habana Vieja Cuba, a World Cultural Heritage.
A report by the Cuban Tourism Ministry “MINTUR” says the refurbished hotel will be located close to the Plaza de Armas Square and the Catedral de la Habana. It was named after a prominent family that lived in the colonial house, built in the 19th century that will now receive tourists from around of the world.
The four star Cuban hotel will have 16 rooms, including three suites and 13 standard rooms,…
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Prensa Latina
Spanish Hotel Group Barcelo is to increase its presence in Cuba"s tourism, with the building of 5,000 new leisure facilities, a digital report on Caribbean News indicated Tuesday.
Caribbean News adds that recent reports from Barcelo Hotels & Resorts, one of the most important consortiums in Spain, has eyes on Santa Maria Key to develop its Beach Resort option, which has earned well-deserved fame in hotels in Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, and plans seven new facilities here by 2010.
Two of those hotels will be built by mixed Hispanic-Cuban companies.
Barcelo Hotels & Resorts…
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The group Oasis Hotels and Resorts, a property of Globalia, has expanded its presence in the Cuban market, where it took over the administration of two hotels owned by Cubanacan.
The company will run the four-star hotels Oasis Brisas del Caribe and Oasis Brisas Santa Lucia.
The former offers 444 rooms and is located by the beach, 30 kilometers from Varadero’s International Airport.
The latter offers 412 rooms and is on Santa Luc�a beach, in the eastern province of Camaguey.
The two establishments provide services to families and, according to Globalia, they offer excellent comfort, services and…
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The Encanto Palacio Azul Hotel, the first establishment of the Hoteles E brand in Cuba, was inaugurated in the central province of Cienfuegos.
Tourist authorities said that during the first stage, 50 Hoteles E will open in places of historic and patrimonial interest in the cities of Havana, Camaguey, Santiago de Cuba and Baracoa.
According to the experts, restoration works in the buildings that will house the hotels have been painstaking to keep their harmony with the environment and to preserve local traditions.
In the case of the Encanto Palacio Azul Hotel, the original building…
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http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com | by LUZ MARINA FORNIELES SANCHEZ
Today, tourism is one of the most dynamic economic activities around the planet which has contributed to a steady development in this area in a number of countries despite the unfavourable consequences of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Until that moment, few companies had achieved such a prolonged boom. Since the 80s, tourism had demonstrated its stability and has kept afloat in spite of international financial crisis.
According to experts, for the first time in 50 years, tourism could not recover immediately.
September 11 events had an unquestionable repercussion in the…
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