Cuba's southeastern region, which is hosting the 14th International Tourism Conference TURNAT 2024, is ideal to enjoy a matchless experience in ecotourism, according to Raúl Naranjo Aday, general director of the Ecotur S.A. Travel Agency.

The executives and workers of the Habanos S.A. Corporation, a world leader in the commercialization of premium cigars, are delighted not only for reaching its 30th anniversary, but also for reaching record revenues of 721 million dollars in 2024.

The 15th International Convention on Cooperativism (COOPERAT 2024) will be opened today at the Havana Convention Center, where six workshops and a forum with parallel programs will be held until Thursday.

Havana Club rum products are selling in markets of 125 countries of the world, with record sales reporting an 8 percent growth in fiscal 2024.

Cuba's culinary and rum-making tradition, evolution and ways of consumption nowadays will be the focus of the 14th International Festival Varadero Gourmet, which opens today in this tourist destination of Western Cuba.

In November 2025, according to ECOTUR travel agency director-general Raul Naranjo Aday, Cuba will host 10th Ibero-American Meeting of Rural Tourism, held in recognition of and to promote the natural values of the Cuban countryside.

Cuban eastern provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo will host the 14th International Nature Tourism Event (Turnat) 2024, to be held September 24-29, in order to showcase the rich natural heritage that makes Cuba a unique destination for rural tourism.

To enhance the values and influence of Arab gastronomy in Latin American cuisine, the 11th Excelencias Gourmet 2024 International Gastronomic Seminar will be held at the Tropicana Cabaret in Havana on Sept. 25 and 26.

 The company Tauba Holmotor S.U.R.L., one of the state-owned MSMEs in the Cuban eastern province of Holguin, will produce for the first time in Cuba engines for electric tricycles, which will allow the linkage with other national industries.

Nikita Stasishin, deputy minister of Construction of Russia, stressed that Cuban enterprises in this sector are considering the possibility of modernization with the help of his country.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is providing Cuban farmers in seven municipalities vulnerable to climate change with agriculture tools and technology.

In order to reduce the fiscal deficit for the macroeconomic stabilization of the country, Vladimir Regueiro Ale, Cuban Minister of Finance and Prices (MFP), reported on Decree Law 93, amending Law 113 of the Tax System, which will enter into force on September 18.

Joaquin Alonso Vazquez, Cuban Minister of Economy and Planning (MEP), ratified on Thursday that the new rules aimed at non-state economic actors are part of the Cuban state's actions to restore and respect legality, which is why they are against indiscipline, bungling and corruption.

Some 800 tons of wheat flour was donated to Cuba by the US organization The People's Forum, and according to Manolo de los Santos, its executive director, many hands from all over the world offered solidarity help to achieve it.