{"id":2135,"date":"2009-12-30T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T08:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2022-09-28T20:55:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:55:26","slug":"cuba-reports-more-tourists-less-revenue-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/cuba-reports-more-tourists-less-revenue-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba reports more tourists, less revenue in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cuba.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2136\" title=\"Cuba \" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cuba-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Cuba \" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Cuba says more than 2.4 million tourists will come to the sun-kissed island by the end of the year, up 3.3 per cent from 2008&#8217;s record, though deep discounts and shorter stays mean vacation industry revenues are down overall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The country will break the previous year&#8217;s mark of 2.34 million visitors by nearly 80,000, fuelled by 2,000 new hotel rooms in top tourist areas, including Havana and Varadero, a white-sand beach north of the capital, Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz said in Thursday&#8217;s edition of the Communist Party newspaper Granma.<\/p>\n<p>He did not say how much Cuban tourism took in and, unlike in previous years, no information on vacation industry revenue was made public during the year-end meeting of Cuba&#8217;s parliament Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Marrero said in November that his ministry&#8217;s revenues would fall about 11.7 per cent, as Cuba has been forced to slash prices because of the global recession.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign visitors generated over $2.7 billion last year, a 13.5 per cent increase from 2007.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba says more than 2.4 million tourists will come to the sun-kissed island by the end of the year, up 3.3 per cent from 2008&#8217;s record, though deep discounts and shorter stays mean vacation industry revenues are down overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8064,137],"tags":[8024],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-america","category-sectoral","tag-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9389,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/9389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}