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A hotel located at the starting point to climb to La Plata and Pico Turquino, the highest in Cuba, has launched several offers to attract national tourism as part of a summer promotional campaign, reported local newspaper Demajagua
This is the tourist village of Santo Domingo, located in this area of the Sierra Maestra, where until October 31, Cubans can book their accommodation in one room for 15 CUC ( more than half of the average wage on the island ).
According to the director of this facility, Yoleydis Sotto Prohenza, you can also book a double room, but at 20 CUC . In both cases, the stay of a minor is included.
The third proposal is a single and double room with a breakfast value of 19 and 28 CUC respectively. Those who choose this modality and take a child will not have to pay for it, and if they are accompanied by two, they will only have to pay one, but half the price of the offer.
Villa Santo Domingo, indicates the publication, It is located at kilometer 16 of the road that joins the municipal seat with the Alto de Naranjo. The hotel's factory is bordered by the Yara River and its surroundings abound with lush vegetation next to the city of the same name.
The directive states that the villa has 39 air-conditioned rooms with hot and cold water service 24h / 24. Satellite, WIFI connection and barbecue. The reserves, he added, can be made to any state-owned Islazul sales agency in the country.
After a notable collapse of international tourism, area authorities on the island would go to the branch until it returned to normal operation, truncated by a series of internal and external conditions.
The consulting firm The Havana Consulting Group (THCG) announced that tourism to Cuba, in the first half of 2018, decreased by 23.6% compared to the same period of 2017.
"The first half of 2018 has been traumatic and devastating for the Cuban tourism industry" because of the combination of "bad practices and countless unresolved accumulated problems" in this sector, says the report. THCG.
The period from January 1 to June 30 this year about 82,269 fewer US tourists visited the island, compared to the same period. According to the agency, it is a product of the "direct influence" of factors such as those mentioned, as well as of "prohibition to lodge in the hotels under the structure of the Cuban Armed Forces imposed by Trump Administration
A study of the same agency published last year revealed that Cuban domestic tourism had experienced "meteoric" growth over the last nine years, with 991,122 nationals staying in hotels in 2016, ] historic record in the sector.
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