Cuba to promote nature tourism at the World Travel Market

The promotion of ecological and adventure tourism are high on the list of Cuba’s priorities for the upcoming World Travel Market and the London Seminar on Tourism Development, Cuban Vice Minister of Tourism Eduardo Rodriguez de la Vega said.

The Cuban official added his country’s delegation will show the realities of a safe destination for both modalities. Mr. Rodriguez said that Cuba will have its own stand in the World Travel Market fairgrounds and the delegation is expected to present a seminar aimed at showcasing the nation’s enormous potentials, as well as at informing regulations in force on environmental protection. Meetings with major tour operators dealing with the Cuban destination are scheduled.

Moreover, Cuba will unveil TURNAT 2003, an event on nature tourism skedded for October next year in the southeastern province of Granma and whose major theme this time up will be nature photography.

Mr. Rodriguez underlined that the arrival of British tourists in Cuba rose at an annual 30% rate between 1995 and 2000, thus making the U.K. one of the island nation’s top sending markets. Despite a difficult year for international tourism everywhere, that same growth rate is increasing by 5 percent.