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(EFE) .- The state hotel group Gaviota will open 2750 new rooms on the island before the end of the year, while the country expects to receive a record five million foreign visitors, the official press reported Friday.
With these new capabilities, Gaviota will have 33,200 rooms in 93 facilities spread over Cuban territory this year, accounting for about 50% of all tourist availabilities in the state, according to Granma ]. The next opening of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Packard, with 321 rooms, "already generates expectations for its quality and its prime location" in Old Havana, said Frank Oltuski, vice president of group marketing , which manages most of its facilities. partnership with foreign companies.
Gaviota currently has 1,892 rooms in Havana and plans to add 7,000 new ceilings by 2025 Acidades, which will include 250 stays at the Paseo del Prado Hotel
The Packard "will strengthen the offer of luxury hotels in the capital started with the Grand Hotel Kempinski Apple," says the manager.
Gaviota currently has 1,892 rooms in Havana plans to add 7,000 new capacity by 2025, which will include 250 stays at the Paseo del Prado hotel, which she plans to to open next year also in Old Havana.
In the neighborhoods of Havana and Vedado Miramar have already begun work for the construction of several modern hotels that will be inaugurated in 2021, said Oltuski.
"Glorias of yesteryear like the Gran Hotel, the Corona cigar factory building, the Regis hotel, the Cueto Palace and the Marquis of Monte Hermoso intervened and will reopen converted into luxury housing in the historic center of Havana, "he said.
These reconstruction actions should be mining for the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana, in November 2019
These reconstruction actions must culminate in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana, in November 2019.
In the rest of the country, Gaviota is also working on the expansion and development of sun and beach destinations such as Varadero, Cayo Paredón Grande and Cayo Cruz (north-central), as well as Ramón de Antilla peninsula, in the eastern province of Holguín.
"The Ocean Arenas Blancas, with 546 rooms, next to the hotel Quebrada, will be the first of Cayo Cruz as a new destination north of Camagüey, while the Iberostar Holguín of 638 rooms will come into service this year "vice president of marketing of Gaviota
In Cuba there are 69,041 hotel rooms today, of which 63% in the facilities of four and five stars and 74% located on the beaches.
According to official data, 65% of the total capacity is operated by joint-stock companies made up of foreign companies and Cuban state-owned companies.
In Cuba, there are now 69,041 hotel rooms, of which 63% are in four- and five-star establishments and 74% are located on the beaches.
This figure does not include the houses of private rentals operated by "independent workers", which totaled some 21,000 throughout Cuba in 2017.
On May 18, Cuba reached two million foreign visitors until now in 2018 , year when he expects to receive a new record of five million travelers.
The island expects to exceed the historical figures of nearly 4.7 and 4.5 million international travelers in 2017 and 2016, respectively.
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