Cuba serves as 3rd largest Caribbean tourist destination [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Xinhua

Cuba serves as 3rd largest Caribbean tourist destination
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-05-04 14:17

HAVANA - Cuba has become the third largest tourist destination in the Caribbean, Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero said here Tuesday at the opening ceremony of the International Tourism Fair (FIT) Cuba 2011.

The minister said the island nation received about 30 million overseas visitors in the last decade.

More than 2.5 million visitors came to Cuba in 2010, a 4.2-percent increase from 2009. Canada, Britain, Spain, Argentina and Russia are the five countries accounting for most of the tourists.

Marrero said the figure would be much higher if the US citizens were not restricted from visiting because of the ongoing economic and political embargo imposed by Washington on Havana for "ideological differences" over the past 50 years.

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