Spanish Hotel Chain Remains Focused on Cuba
Spain-based Ocean By H10 Hotels has iterated its intention to enhance its business in Cuba, a travel destination that’s been increasingly steadily over the past ten years.
Jose Alejandro Gonzalez, the company’s chief of operations, told Caribbean News Digital talks are underway with Cuba’s Gaviota Group to get a management contract for just another lodging facility on the island nation.
Mr. Gonzalez, who’s attending the 33rd edition of the International Tourism Fair (FITCuba 2013), sees this event as an opportunity to sit down with his Cuban counterparts and assess the company’s expansion in all other travel destinations across the island, especially in the northern keys.
Negotiations are also being held with Cuban company Gran Caribe in an effort to cut mutually beneficial deals for both groups and expand its operations with the opening of new hotels.
“We hope to talk directly with tour operators and travel agencies visiting Varadero these days and reinforce our exchanges with officials from the Ministry of Tourism,” Mr. Gonzalez told CND.
Thanks to a joint management agreement with Gaviota, Ocean By H10 Hotels runs some 720 guestrooms in Cuba, in such establishments as Ocean By Habana Panorama in Havana and Ocean By Varadero El Patriarca in Varadero, Cuba’s top travel destination some 89 miles east from Havana, the island nation’s capital.
Ocean By H10 Hotels is headquartered in Barcelona and runs deluxe all-inclusive hotels in the Caribbean, especially in Mexico’s Riviera Maya, Dominican Republic’s Punta Cana and in Cuba.
