Meliá Cohiba is a lodging that has set quite a benchmark in Cuba’s hotel industry. This year –Mr. Bourdales told Caribbean News Digital- has been intense. The hotel has undergone a refurbishment process and the establishment has organized a number of successful Gourmet Days dedicated to Spanish, Italian and Cuban cuisine. Mr. Boudales also referred to those projects the front office has in store for the rest of the year and even hinted at what’s coming up in 2004.
Alejandro Escobar Burgos is the president of Gran Caribe hotel group and feels like a million bucks for the big hits his company has scored this year. For the upcoming wintertime season –the time of year that brings in more foreign tourists to Cuba- Mr. Burgos expects his company to fare even better, especially with the grand opening of the Barceló Cayo Largo Hotel. Gran Caribe is a Cuban hotel chain that runs four-star and five-star establishments with nearly 11,000 rooms in all. With just nine years of experience under its belt, Gran Caribe affects great managerial expertise and superb approval ratings among thousands of travelers who enjoy its services and facilities.
During the World Travel Market in London, Caribbean News Agency interviewed Cuba’s Tourism Vice Minister Eduardo Rodriguez de la Vega, who gave us some enlightening figures about tourism on the island nation all through 2003, a sector that’s been making some incredible headway regardless of the unhelpful conditions triggered by a severe crisis that pummeled the travel industry worldwide through most of 2001 and 2002. Furthermore, Mr. Rodriguez speaks about new hotel investments and the need to add more air connections in order to snare a much larger inflow of tourists.
In this exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital, the chief of TACA Office in Spain speaks about the new accords signed between his company and CATA (Central America Tourism Association) in an effort to ease flights across the region.
Within the framework of the World Travel Market in London, Caribbean News Digital interviewed Aruba’s Tourism Minister Edison Briesen. Among other things, Mr. Briesen talked about his country’s strategy to both branch out and enhance tourist markets. In the same breath, he referred to improvement chances for the local hotel industry as far as quality is concerned, as well as to the need of adding more air connections.
A new trademark comes into being
Born for Evolution seems to be the sign of the times in this absolutely revolutionary image change. A few years after First Choice’s buyout of Barceló Travel (formerly owned by the Barceló Co.), this change now comes to pass. The company’s marketing director Gabriel Riera tells us how and why that happened now in the first place.