During the tourism fair Inturmarket International
Exhibition that concludes today in the Moscow Crocus Expo, Stefania
Escobar Díaz, director of MINTUR’s office in the European country,
also participated in a meeting with Russian tourism authorities to
discuss cooperation possibilities.
MINTUR is participating in Inturmarket-2010 along with national tour
operators such as Havanatur, Sol y Son, Cubatur, Gaviota and Gaviota
Tours, Prensa Latina news agency reports.
In a stand of 81 square meters, Cuba is working with
Russian tour-operators like Neva, Weekend, Southern Cross, ICS,
Capital tour, SIT Travel, Vand International and TEZ tours, among
others.
Escobar Díaz announced that Cuba will give in September a seminar to
a network of tour operators in several Russian cities such as Saint
Petersburg, Kazan, Nishni, Novgorod and Samara.
A total of 8,721 Russian tourists had visited Cuba by the end of
last February, for a 12% increase compared to 2009, when 37,391
Russians traveled to the Caribbean nation.
Inturmarket is the dynamically developing exhibition which gathers
professionals of the tourist industry from all over the world. The
exhibition is held under the auspices of the Russian executive
authorities, the Russian Association of Tour Operators, the Russian
Union
of Tourism Industry, leading air and rail carriers and the United
Nations World Tourism Organization.
