Cuba expects 2.3 million visitors in 2005
APWednesday, May 11, 2005
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba expects to receive 2.3 million visitors in 2005, about 300,000 more than last year, the island's Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero said yesterday as he inaugurated an international tourism fair here.
Cuba passed the two-million mark for visitors for the first time last year, following several slow years amid a worldwide drop in air travel after the 2001 terrorism attacks on the United States.
Marrero told tourism fair participants that the number of visitors is increasing from countries that already have a high travel rate to Cuba, such as Canada, the Netherlands and Britain.
Meanwhile, he said, the Cuban tourism industry is recovering losses it suffered in recent years in other traditional markets, such as Mexico and France, and is creating markets in new countries such as Turkey, Japan and China. This year's international fair is dedicated to France.
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