Russian tourism to Cuba grows by 30 percent

Russian the travel industry in Cuba developed by around 30 per cent in 2019, when there were very nearly 178,000 guests from that Eurasian nation, a figure recorded as a record for that market that has gotten one of the rising backers to the Caribbean island, the state media detailed this Tuesday.

The Russians go to practically all the nation's traveller goals, from the territories of Holguín and Camagüey in the eastern part of Cayo Coco and Cayo Santa Maria in the focal district to Havana and Varadero seashore resort in the region of Matanzas, these last two the most visited in the nation.

The number of Russian voyagers to Cuba could build this year to 200,000, as indicated by the development estimates of the Cuban Ministry of Tourism that has picked Russia as the visitor of respect in 2020 at the area's most significant occasion: the FitCuba reasonable.

The Cuban visit administrator Havanatur and the Russian offices Annexe Tur, Natalitur and Daikiry have assumed a significant job in the methodology to pull in clients, to which are included the flights of aircraft from the Eurasian nation that right now land in a few of the island's territories, as indicated by the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news organisation.

For the part's specialists, the supported increment of Russian explorers to Cuba implies the likelihood that later on Russia can have a conspicuous position together with guarantors of the travel industry to the island, similar to Canada, and France, United Kingdom and Spain, from Europe.

In 2018, the recuperation in Russian the travel industry had arrived at more than 137,900 voyagers from that nation, after the more than 51,000 who visited the island a year sooner.

The lessening in U.S. guests to Cuba, ascribed mostly to the increase of movement limitations applied by the United States, strongly affected the Caribbean nation's relaxation industry.

The Cuban the travel industry specialists decreased the figure they had wanted to get in 2019 to 4.3 million visitors―until now not confirmed―instead of the underlying appraisal of 5.1 million.

Canada remains the fundamental backer of vacationers to Cuba, followed by the Cuban people group abroad, the U.S., France, Germany, Mexico and Spain. At the same time, Russia, China, Portugal and Argentina are viewed as potential markets.

The travel industry is Cuba's second wellspring of salary after the fare of expert administrations, and it contributes 10% to the total national output (GDP) and produces around a large portion of a million occupations.