Attention on the upcoming 43rd edition of the International Tourism Fair of Cuba (FITCuba 2025) is growing today among tour operators and travel agents from more than 100 countries.
This attention is justified, based on the announced official plans for the recovery of the travel industry and the publication of the program of said meeting by the Cuban Minister of Tourism, Juan Carlos García.
García spoke this Wednesday in the Taganana Room of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, before ambassadors from Western Europe and Canada, when he showed the preliminary official program of this event, one of the most attended by companies and tourism professionals that work with this country.
FITCuba 2025 will take place from April 30 to May 3 at the Morro-Cabaña Military Historical Park fairgrounds, a system of colonial fortresses that is very well preserved and that constitutes a tourist postcard of Havana.
On this occasion, the event will be dedicated to China, as a guest country, and to Cuban Traditions as a Product, while he announced that the receptive will be Cubatur and the official carrier will run on behalf of Transtur.
FITCuba 2025 Program
As usual, the first day will be the ribbon cutting and the minister’s tour of the premises with invited authorities and the diplomatic corps, while an opening gala is also scheduled for the evening with a presentation of Cuban and Chinese culture at the Karl Marx theater, and a meeting in the gardens of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba.
They foresee the participation of the guests in the parade for May 1, International Workers’ Day, in the José Martí Revolution Square, and a meeting with airline representatives at the Meliá Habana Hotel, in addition to the presentation of this destination among other tasks organized for the Meliá Cohiba hotel.
On May 2, the day of negotiations will take place at the fairgrounds and the official closing at night at the nightclub or Havana cabaret of Tropicana (1939), while on May 3 a meeting of the Ministers of Tourism of the member countries of the ALBA-TCP will be scheduled at the Grand Muthu Habana hotel.
For May 3, the organizing committee plans the Day of the General Public, in which the doors of the Fair are opened for mass visits and exchange with exhibitors.
On that final day, the trip or Postur begins for a group of delegates and invited journalists that will cover the western region of Viñales, Matanzas, in particular the resort of Varadero, and the central city of Trinidad.
The Minister of Tourism stressed – as a talk prior to FITCuba – data on tourism in this country and its most immediate challenges.
He pointed out that this sector continues to be described as the locomotive of the country’s economy, in order to boost the rest of the spheres and promote the solution to other indicators.
Strengths of tourism in Cuba
García argued that there are currently 84,164 hotel rooms on the island. Cuba currently has 10 international airports and the same number of marinas, with three cruise terminals.
In Cuba, 19 foreign management offices from 10 countries operate, for 57,291 rooms, from 153 facilities, with Spain at the head and Meliá Hotels International, which manages 36 establishments.
He said that Cuban tourism has on its list of challenges to face electrical problems, stable supplies of food, beverages and supplies, fuel shortages to the retail network, suspension of ESTA visas, travel alerts and decreased air connection.
All this is mainly due, he insisted, to the restrictive measures of the United States against Cuba in financial, economic and commercial matters (known as blockade), and to the intensification of more than 243 limiting measures.
The minister explained that this country in terms of tourism is supported by a cultural, architectural and natural heritage with nine sites declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
In addition, there are six Biosphere Reserves, 17 manifestations of cultural heritage of the nation, five Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 227 National Monuments, six Ramsar Sites (Wetlands) and 14 National Parks.
This allowed 212 countries to send tourists to Cuba last year, including (most relevant) Canada, Cubans living abroad, Russia, the United States, Spain, Germany, Mexico, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Colombia, Portugal, China, Poland, Brazil, Venezuela, Türkiye, the Netherlands, Panama and Switzerland.
With information from Prensa Latina/ Translated by Radio Angulo
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