Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban Minister of Tourism, highlighted today in the city of Holguin the favorable conditions the sector has for the proper development of the so-called high season of visitors' arrival to the Cuban archipelago.

A total of 298 agricultural cooperatives were dissolved in Cuba following their incapacity to have appropriate financial performance as it was announced in a meeting of the National Agriculture and Forest Workers Union.

The workers of the sugar industry in the province of Camagüey forecast a 31 percent growth in their production in the coming harvest, compared to last year´s, which will mean about 45 thousand tons more .

Cubana de Aviacion airline company inaugurated on Sunday its first direct flight between Havana and San Jose, Costa Rica. The two-flight weekly connection uses Russian-Ukrainian Antonov 158 planes with capacity for 85 passengers.

Cuba is now offering important foreign investment opportunities in its tourist sector, which is the second major hard-currency earner after the export of professional services.

In keeping with the updating process of the Cuban economic model, a total of 378 011 loans were granted to individuals at the end of September this year, Francisco Mayobre Lence, vice president of Cuba's Central Bank (BCC by its Spanish acronym), said.

The Cuban Aviation Company expects to increase flights to the Caribbean and Central America with the purchase from Russia of Ukrainian-Russian planes An-158, the sixth of which will be received by the company in the first quarter of 2015.

Cuba has the best tourist complex of the All Inclusive modality worldwide, the Royalton Cayo Santa Maria, operated by the Canadian firm Blue Diamond, according to the list issued on Wednesday by the specialized Web site TripAdvisor.

The Fishing Company of Santiago de Cuba province ( PESCASAN by its Spanish acronym) markets new provisions diversifying thus its production with the added value of the industry, which allows to process 90 percent of the capturing on the 49 micro-dams and 17 reservoirs.

Cuban charcoal is reporting stable demand at the European market given its high quality, with Portugal, Italy and Spain being the main importers of the product.

Cuba and Panama signed on Friday in this capital the First Modifying Protocol of the Agreement of Partial Scope, which will contribute to boost commercial relations between the two countries.

The Playa Blanca Hotel, in Cayo Largo, Isle of Youth, is the first facility in the Caribbean than joins the new brand Olé hotels, belonging to the Spanish international chain Iberostar.

The arrival of a Sunwing flight from Toronto, Ontario, marked the beginning of the winter season for tourism in the eastern Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba.

A total 36 countries have sent inquiries to invest at the Special Development Zone in the western Cuban harbor of Mariel, which was opened nearly a year ago.