Tourist bonanza shoots up revenues in Jardines del Rey

Cuba’s tourist circuit of Jardines del Rey –penciled in as the fastest-growing cluster on the island nation- is amassing revenues way over $15 million in the first seven months of 2003, thus outnumbering gross earnings netted in the same period of time the year before when its establishments grabbed $8.8 million.

In all, the circuit’s eleven hotels now operating on Coco and Guillermo keys garnered $6.7 million during that same span of time as a result of better efficiency and services offered to more than 110,000 travelers who came here in the first half of the year.

Both islets bank on 3,300 hotel rooms designed to meet the demands of trippers who choose this breathtakingly beautiful destination.

Occupancy rates in Jardines del Rey’s hotels are in the neighborhood of 60 percent, a somewhat fair level depending on how tourism is faring elsewhere under the sun.