Cuban Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero said the number of tourists in Cuba has grown 17.8 percent in 2015, compared to the same period last year.

Cuba and the United States set up, on Saturday in Washington, a joint business council aimed at building a strategic commercial relationship, establish links in the entrepreneurial sector and facilitate the identification of trade opportunities.

Cuban Tourism official Pablo Vazquez said in Panama that given the tourist boom witnessed by the island, marked by a 17 percent growth, Cuba nears three million foreign vacationers.

An agreement for scientific and technical cooperation in agriculture was signed between the governments of Cuba and Panama, two weeks after Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela paid an official visit to Cuba, where he met with Raul Castro.

Argentina and Cuba signed cooperation agreements to boost ties in the agricultural, livestock and rural development sectors, so necessary today for development.

A group of entrepreneurs from the Mexican state of Quintana Roo will travel to Cuba to assess potential investments in a near future.

A high-level mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan will seek in Cuba next week opportunities that contribute to expand bilateral relations in the economic sphere.

From today until Wednesday, scholars from various nations will meet in this capital for the Fourth International Seminar on Tourism, Development and Sustainability, with the aim of promoting good practice in a key sector for emerging economies.

Uruguay is willing to collaborate and deepen commercial relations with Cuba, said the president of Uruguay´s Export and Investment Promotion Institute, Antonio Carambula, who recently paid a working visit to the island.

Cuba and China explore in this capital new business opportunities to expand cooperation to key sectors such as tourism, in which the two nations are already boosting projects linked to hotel development and golf courses.

A major business contract to supply Cuba with means of rail transport was signed at the headquarters of the Embassy of the Caribbean nation in Russia, reported Cubaminrex digital site.

When Cuba's popularity grows in the global tourism market; this Caribbean island was elected venue of the 60th meeting of UNWTO Regional Commission for the Americas, convened for May 2016.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday will present, before the local and foreign media, the annual report "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba."

Santiago Perez, head of the food department of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, spoke with authorities in Ho Chi Minh City on aspects of updating the economic model in the agricultural sector, reports Prensa Latina (PL) from Vietnam.