Cuba. The cruise industry today represents an opportunity for Cuba to innovate this segment and its facilities amid efforts to revitalize tourism and enable a faster understanding of this country.
This criterion is confirmed by both the guides and the authorities of the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur) of this country.
This is aided by the all-time push into this style of travel, which this nation is not shying away from, so it is necessary to consider the background to this.
On this rope, Cuba has a privileged position, however, the economic and commercial measures taken by the United States against it (blockade) weigh heavily since the 1960s and many ships hang around it on the itinerary map ., but without being able to touch it .
This runs counter to freedom of travel and Cuban efforts to retake cruise terminals across the archipelago.
Despite the fact that the routes in the Caribbean are growing every year, and Cuba is not nicknamed the “Key to the Gulf” (Gulf of Mexico) for fun, the above obstacles remain.
The cruise industry in the nation had its most recent boom in the 1990s, since 1994 tourism as an industry was gaining momentum in this country, hence the conversion of its main port for this modality in Havana and the entry of various companies.
Some of these ships that arrived later had to suspend their operations due to the extraterritorial pressure of laws imposed by the United States, as in the case of Italian ships.
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These measures affected the world’s major cruise lines such as Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Star Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), MSC and Costa, which includes US capital.
However, recent examples confirm a resumption of these trips to the island, as the British cruise ship Marella Discovery2 docked in Havana with 1,600 travelers on board in 2022, beginning the winter season for these types of trips to the island nation’s territory.
The director of Cubatur’s western branch, Carlos Alberto Rivera, aptly said that the ship, owned by British company Tui ok, stays in dock 27 hours and calls at the Cuban port every 15 days.
In March, the Marella Explorer 2 ship docked in Havana, which continues sailing with the newcomer during the island’s peak tourist season (November-April).
This interest in these tourist boats is remembered by experts from a long global trajectory of their trips around the planet.
Cruises are trips by passenger ships to any part of the world for pleasure purposes, as a different and particular tourist modality to see different places and some places that cannot be reached by other means of transport.
This route is currently considered to be up and coming, according to information there are likely to be around 16 million cruise passengers, including around four million single people or single couples.
In 1835, the first cruise advertisement appeared in the British newspaper Shetland Journal with the aim of visiting Scotland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands – at that time nobody suspected the rapid development of this type.
The countries that later joined the trend were the United States, Germany, United Kingdom and France competing for the market and among the notable ships emerged the Queen Mary, built in 1948 and now used as a floating hotel in Long Beach is anchored. United States. .
As early as 1960, 100 passenger companies appeared registered. This concept has not changed much and is intended for a sector with great purchasing power when there are currently 280 shipping companies, both sea and river, offering 30,000 cruises to 2,000 destinations.
Therefore, due to its geographic location, natural assets and the friendliness of its citizens, Cuba can very well strive to increase its attractiveness for the organizers of said trips.
Source: Pl