The challenges of a Havana with 500 years

The authorities are looking for new variants that allow us to smile at a future that always has something to discover and a new challenge to face.

Hence, Havana is pure tourism and for this, it requires rejuvenating every day.

This criteria of tour operators and travel agents is combined with demonstrative surveys that a good part of foreign visitors welcome the recreational performances of the city.

Havana is one of the most important scenarios for the Cuban travel industry, with over 90 percent of all tourists visiting the archipelago (exceeding four million for several years).

This city plans 13 new hotels that complete the panorama of the city. In addition, 51 airlines fly here from 36 cities on the planet, and 12 cruise companies dock at the maritime terminal of the city.

In 2018 alone, two million 850 thousand foreigners visited Havana, when the capital has 12,488 rooms, 51 percent of which are establishments with four and five stars.

But the development plan is broad, as a long list of investors are related to hotels, recreational centers, and golf and nautical projects.

One of those examples is the Bello Monte Golf Course, on the eastern beaches of the city, which will extend 3.6 square kilometers, with two 18-hole plots, a 500-room hotel, and 1,800 residences, next to an academy (six thousand 800 square meters).

The Cuban tourism minister, Manuel Marrero, mentioned in a timely manner that 44 percent of the 12 thousand rooms in the city are two and three-star facilities, with significant openings such as the Hotel Iberostar Grand Packard, and the Paseo del Prado, both 5-star plus.

Havana will add new hotels in the near future and will incorporate more than a thousand rooms currently out of service.

Among the new facilities are the Hotel Linea and N, the Marquis de Monte Hermoso, the Gran Hotel, the Vedado Azul, and the Portales de Paseo, a long list that will add to others no less important.

Similarly, extra-hotel services are revived in the Tarara and Hemingway marinas, and the Capdevila Golf Course, and also restaurants such as La Ferminia and 1830, or La Giraldilla complex, operated by the Palmares Group.

Precisely a 2014 international survey determined this as one of the Seven Wonder Cities of the world, an election that now takes a stir for its 500 years.