Cuba Ranks Third as Caribbean’s Top Travel Destination

Carlos Vogeler, General Director for the Americas of the World Tourism Organization (WTO), said Cuba now is in the third position as the Caribbean country that receives more tourists per year, trailing behind only the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

During his visit to Jardines del Rey keys in a tour at the end of the 32nd International Tourism Fair FITCUBA 2012, the official said Cuba is improving its tourist industry and that shows in the increasing number of arrivals each year.
 
He added that this visit to Jardines del Rey (King’s Gardens) allowed many foreigners to get to know the natural beauties that can be found in the Coco and Guillermo Keys, because it is a very valuable product barely known outside Cuba, he said.

Tour operators, travel agents, and hotel chains and airliners representatives toured the different facilities in the keys off the northern central Cuban coast. There they could see the beauty of the Playa Pilar resort, one of the most beautiful places in Cuba, where the sand dunes are among the best preserved in the region.