Cuba celebrates today the Day of the Hospitality and Tourism Worker with a call from the nation’s highest authorities to deploy innovative initiatives to improve the sector and generate more income.
Prime Minister Manuel Marrero considered this decisive force for the revival of the national economy, which is going through adversity due to the tightening of the U.S. blockade.
During a recent act of recognition for outstanding personnel during 2024, the head of government highlighted the importance of human capital to achieve success in the activity.
In this context, he urged professionals and managers of the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur in the Spanish acronym) to strengthen internal communication and maintain a favorable work environment that fosters unity in the face of current challenges.
Marrero also called for intensifying the preparation and updating of these public servants, whom he described as ambassadors of the nation to foreign tourists, national media reported.
The prime minister also highlighted the contribution of the sector to the strengthening of the socialist state enterprise, to increase the link with other economic actors and to generate greater income in foreign currency.
The Day of the Worker of the Hotel and Tourism of the Antillean island pays tribute to Elpidio Sosa, assailant and martyr of the Moncada Barracks (July 26, 1953, Santiago de Cuba, east), who maintained a brave and altruistic attitude during that feat.
In the organizational phase of the Moncada action, Sosa, a gastronomic clerk of the Havana Bar Oriente located on San Miguel and Consulado, sold his place to contribute the money to the revolutionary cause.
At only 24 years of age, he was taken prisoner and murdered on the walls of the Moncada Barracks, a fortress in Santiago besieged by the insurgent movement led by the young lawyer Fidel Castro, marking the resumption of the armed struggle for Cuba’s definitive independence.
With information from Prensa Latina /Translated by Radio Angulo
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