Cuba Agrees Terms for New Hotel Management Contracts

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 28 (acn) Cuba signed new contracts for the management and commercialization of facilities in the tourist areas of Varadero and Santa Maria Cay, in its efforts to improve its hotel infrastructure with the participation of prestigious foreign chains.

With the Panamanian subsidiary Warwick International Hotels, a French company founded in 1980, the Gaviota S.A. Tourism Group agreed terms for the operation of Lagunas del Este, a five-star complex of 800 rooms, which will be soon commercialized as the Warwick Cayo Santa Maria Resort.
In statements to ACN on Monday, Jose R. Daniel, business director of the Tourism Ministry, pointed out that the Cuban owner signed the contracts with the Panamanian trading company Warwick Caribbean Management Limited Inc., created in June, 2014, which has the prestigious French chain as shareholder.
He said that negotiations with the Panamanian subsidiary also include the management of the Naviti Varadero Resort, a four-star hotel of 450 rooms so far identified as Allegro Varadero, in the Hicacos Peninsula.