From the diversity that characterizes it, having sun and beach, city, nature, historical and cultural products, Holguin Tourism bets on remaining as one of Cuba’s main destinations in the current high season.
Carlos Álvarez Infante, commercial specialist of the Holguín Delegation of the Cuban Ministry of Tourism (Mintur) in this province, said that an important aspect for the achievement of that goal is the 74 weekly air operations that are expected to be carried out in the coming months at Frank País International Airport.
That number of flights, higher than in other high seasons in this region, will boost the influx of clients to the country’s third largest tourist destination, which is already increasing services in its more than 7,900 rooms.
Carlos Álvarez, Tourism Director, Holguín
Carlos Álvarez Infante, commercial specialist of Mintur in Holguín, points out that the sector is increasing its ties with new economic actors to guarantee supplies. Photo: Lianne Fonseca
The executive points out that the estimates for the number of flights are much more encouraging than those of 2022 and even those of 2019, prior to the entry of Covid-19 to the Caribbean island, and specifies that more than 87 percent of the clients will come from Canada.
“In winter 2022-2023 one of the provinces that increased with respect to 2019 by more than 80 percent growth entries was precisely Holguín, and if this stage is going to be much better for what is outlined in the number of flights and their occupation, we will have a good high season,” explains the Mintur representative.
Something new this winter in Holguín is the expected opening of two new hotels, one of them located in El Ramón de Antilla, and another one in Yuraguanal beach, which would add more than 1,600 rooms to the destination.
In spite of the perspectives outlined, Álvarez Infante emphasizes that “tourism does not escape from the country’s problems. Today, undoubtedly, if we look at the behavior of what should be offered according to the categories of the facilities, there is a deficit of products.
“But we are constantly working on that, both from the tourist facilities and from the Ministry of Tourism to mitigate the situation and lessen the problem. And today the supply that is being provided is very acceptable,” he says.
He argues that although the contracts with the traditional suppliers of the state sector are maintained, such as companies of the agricultural system and the dairy and meat industries, new economic actors have been incorporated, with which important contracts have been signed.
More than 116 contracts with non-state management forms allow the supply of other products, he points out.
By Lianne Sarahi Fonseca Diéguez
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