First Culture and Tourism Workshop held in Cuba

With a view to strengthen ties between culture and tourism, as well as to expand exchanges for better and wider offers, the first inter-enterprise workshop on culture and tourism took place at the Havana Libre Tryp Hotel in the Cuban capital.

In her opening remarks, Cuba’s Tourism Vice Minister Marta Maiz said tourist management should zero in on the promotion of national roots by rescuing heritage values and Cuban culture’s most ingrained traditions.

The first workshop tackled all conceptual underpinnings and necessary tools to both establish and continue the application of a system of mutually advantageous relations eventually agreed upon by the island nation’s Culture and Tourism ministries in conjunction with the League of Cuban Writers and Artists.

The agreement proposes the harmonic fostering and fruitful implementation of a linkage between culture and tourism within a framework of mutual cooperation, exchanges and joint projects.

Mrs. Maiz highlighted tourism as a cultural fact based on joint efforts and coordinated by a design whereby good, enriching and diverse offers really count. “The whole thing,” she said, “should constitute a wide array of possibilities as far as travel, discoveries and movement toward our destination are concerned.”

Mrs. Maiz noted that over the past fourteen years, Cuba has come in for over fifteen million tourists who have “enjoyed our finest beaches, our peerless cities and our entire cultural heritage.”

Culture is alive in Cuba and Cuba lives its culture. That’s the feeling that visitors coming to Cuba get from cultural institutions all across the country. Monuments, museums, theaters, art galleries, dance shows, musical performances and contacts with Cuban artists are no doubt the right way to get the most of Cuba’s culture.