Cuba and UK assessed the progress in economic, trade and investment relations between the two countries and the extensive reach of this potential, during a visit by senior UK foreign ministry officials to Havana.

Colombian leading company in the hotel industry, On Vacation, arrives in Cuba with two hotels through alliances with Memories Resort & Spa and Wingo airline.

The investment program executed in the tourism sector of the Cuban province of Camagüey allows the expansion of its hotel infrastructure and improves the state of other facilities.

Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, deputy Cuban PM, led today the Chamber of Commerce's review meeting, where the work of the institution in 2019 and its priorities for 2020 were analyzed.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla condemned the United States' ban on charter flights to Cuba, except to Havana, starting today.

Oscar Perez-Oliva Fraga, assessment director of the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM by its Spanish acronym), and a delegation from that entity concluded a working visit to the Netherlands, aimed at continuing fostering and identifying investment projects in the aforementioned area.

The project of a new boulevard is executed in Varadero to receive FITCUBA 2020, largest tourist event in Cuba to be held at that resort next May 4-9.

A Cuban delegation is attending the 12th Sectoral Ministerial Meeting on Tourism, to be held March 9-10 at the Andorra la Vella Convention Center.

Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuban minister of foreign trade and foreign investment, held working meetings with Graciela Marquez, Mexican secretary of economy, as well as with Luz Maria de la Mora, undersecretary of foreign trade, with whom he discussed joint investment projects.

The gradual elimination of the CUC payment in gastronomic establishments as of last Feb. 29 aims to achieve greater control in this chain, said Miriam Perez, deputy minister of domestic trade.

Ana Teresita Gonzalez, Deputy Minister in the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment (MINCEX by its Spanish acronym), received Dr. Idris Mayya, ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic in Havana.

Cuba was placed in the list of the 25 most popular destinations in the world corresponding to Tripadvisor Traveller's Choice Awards, the largest travel website worldwide, and based on the opinions and ratings of millions of its members.

Experts from the Agricultural Research Center of the Las Villas Central University (UCLV by its Spanish acronym) are studying the megalurothrips usitatus (bean flower thrip), an insect that has caused severe damage to the country's bean plantations in recent months.

The Cuban-Brazilian joint venture Brascuba Cigarettes S.A. is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary, and despite the limitations and obstacles to its production and marketing caused by the U.S. blockade, it recently renewed its contract to stay on the Caribbean island for the next 40 years.