Jardines del Rey with Best Tourist Season Ever

CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, Mar 6 (acn) Jardines del Rey destination, north of Ciego de Ávila, has the best winter season since opening to marketing more than two decades ago, with record number of visitors and flight arrivals.

Luis Baez, commercial director of the Ministry of Tourism in the territory, told reporters that the hotels of the enclave, formed by Coco and Guillermo Cays, record up to nine thousand visitors staying in one day, the highest number ever.
The main guest arrivals occur through Jardines del Rey International Airport, in Cayo Coco, which currently receives about 45 flights a week from various markets.
Opened in December 2002, the facility closed in 2014 with the movement of about 400,000 passengers in input and output operations, and for May the arrival of 50 aircrafts is expected, for an average of eight thousand vacationers per day.
Executives from the sector said that this is due to the opening of new routes like Aeroatlantic airline, belonging to Portuguese tour operator Sonhando, with charter operations during the summer, and recently Blue Panorama, with a direct connection from the Italian city of Milan.
The main airlines operating at the destination are Thomas Cook (England), Air Transat, CanJet, Wesjet, Air Canada and SunWing -more than 20 weekly flights - (from Canada), Blue Panorama (Italy), and the local Cubana de Aviacion, among others.
They also receive domestic flights mainly from Aerocaribean with excursions to the cities of Cienfuegos, Trinidad and Havana
Jardines del Rey, with 16 hotels and more than six thousand rooms, has received more than three million tourists since it began operating 25 years ago.
With an annual growth of 13 percent in the number of visitors, the attractive enclave characterized by its excellent natural conditions, is ready to host next May the International Tourism Fair FIT Cuba 2015.