Juan Carlos Garcia Granda, Cuban minister of tourism, received today the Medal of Merit for the Internationalization of Spanish Tourism in Ibero-America.

Cuba aspires, by 2030, to increase its hotel capacity to 95,000 rooms and exceed 6 million visitors, Cuban minister of tourism ,Juan Carlos Garcia Granda, said today.

In line with the improvement of the Cuban economic model, the Economic Consultancy CANEC S.A. offers and expands its advisory services and basic training to micro, medium and small enterprises (MSMEs) in order to improve the management of these newly created structures.

Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa described as commendable the results of the workers’ collective of the cannery Yara in the province of Granma, which he toured today as part of a government visit.

 Cuba’s Economy Ministry approved another 99 micro, small and medium private and state companies, along a cooperative, taking the number of these enterprises to 1. 471 since last September.

Havana counts on 540 new micro, small and medium enterprises out of more than 1300 such entities approved in the country to boost Cuban economy.

With the incorporation of three new micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) on Tuesday, the Cuban province of Matanzas now has 76 economic actors of this type, since the application and approval process began in late September last year.

In order to achieve the expected impacts on food production in Cuba, the ministry of agriculture ( MINAG) is promoting collaborative projects in agriculture and livestock.

When over 1370 micro, small and medium companies have thus far been approved in Cuba since last September, the island’s Economy Ministry has called for more applications to open new businesses particularly in the service area.

France’s Development Agency and the Republic of Cuba signed an credit-line accord in Havana to finance a project for the cleansing of the Luyano River on Havana Bay, according to the Cuban Foreign Trade and Investment Ministry.

Cuba’s Economy and Planning Ministry approved 86 new micro, small and medium companies on Wednesday, which takes the number of those enterprises to 1374 after the most recent approval of another 81 applications on December 29.

The reopening of tourist facilities in this central province, such as the 5-star Iberostar Grand Hotel Trinidad, local leisure activity and services for visitors keep recovering under safe COVID-19 protocols.

The online home-rental marketplace Airbnb Inc settled the payment of a fine imposed by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for having guests in Cuba, an alleged violation of US sanctions against Cuba.

The National Sugarcane Hybridization Center, the only one of its kind in Cuba, located in the province of Sancti Spiritus(central region), is committed to improving the work of crossbreeding with the blooms of the grass in the mountains and the plains to strengthen the nation's sugarcane varietal program, vital for the development of sugar contests.