By the end of 2018, the Spanish hotel chain Melia will run 34 hotels and 14,661 rooms in Cuba. The upward trend in these figures received a boost this year, after the company invested some 150 million dollars in the island.

The 2018-2019 harvest will begin next November at the Argeo Martinez sugar mill in the province of Guantanamo, announced on Sunday in Havana Julio Andres Garcia Perez, president of AZCUBA Sugar Group.

Cuba is carrying out a group of actions aimed at improving the reception, transfer and storage of goods, raw materials, food and other items, including the improvement of the port-transport-internal economy chain, and also to counteract the effects of the blockade on these operations or services.

The Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture in the eastern Cuban province of Las Tunas reported that will put in operations some 875 irrigation systems throughout its territory in order to increase food production.

Cuba will build a bioelectric plant, which will be associated with a sugar plant, and a 50 MW wind farm through a loan granted by India, said today in New Delhi the Cuban Minister of Energy and Mines, Raul Garcia Barreiro, according to Prensa Latina.

Habanos SA, a world leader in the sale of premium cigars, will participate in the International Fair of Tobacco Products and Accessories for smokers INTER-TABAC, to be held in the German city of Dortmund, September 21-23.

The Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos (CSMC) S.A. and the Canadian tour operator COGIR, signed on Wednesday in this capital an agreement for the implementation of a program dedicated to the medical attention of Canadian tourists of the third age.

Varadero, Cuba´s main tourist pole of sun and beach, will have three thousand rooms by 2020, thus continuing the good rhythm of contruction that is carried out there, said Ivis Fernandez, delegate of the Tourism Ministry (MINTUR) in Matanzas province.

Trading with the Enemy Act, one of the legal basis of the blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba was extended on Monday by US President Donald Trump through a memorandum sent to the Secretary of State and Treasury.

José Dioni, president of the International Bartenders Association (IBA), said that Cuba has the capability of hosting the 2022 World Cocktail Championship.

The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba caused losses to the national economy of more than 4 billion dollars during the last year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed today.

Representatives of 18 nations will compete in the XXII Pan American Cocktail Championship IBA 2018, scheduled from 25 to 30 at the hotel Tryp Habana Libre, in this capital city, where its workers plan to achieve a Guinness Record with the largest "Cuba Libre" cocktail in the world.

The Empresa Internacional Cubana de Tabaco S.A. (ICT) recently bought state-of-art technology to increase the productive capacities and to elevate the quality of cigars, a highly demanded item in the Cuban and foreign market.

The nomination of six hotel facilities of the Melia Hotels International Cuba company for the 2018 World Travel Awards is a new success for Cuban tourism against the defamatory campaign of the United States government.