{"id":80,"date":"2010-03-10T07:34:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/?p=80"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:20:27","slug":"cuban-tourism-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/cuban-tourism-season.htm","title":{"rendered":"Cuban tourism season off to rough start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Cuban tourism season got off to a rough start in 2010, with arrivals down 4.9 percent in January from the same month of last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report said arrivals were 254,845 in the first month of this year, compared with 268,115 in January 2009. It gave no further details.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism and related businesses are an important source of income for the cash-strapped, communist-run Caribbean island, totaling more than $2 billion last year, or about 20 percent of Cuba&#8217;s foreign exchange income.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign sources in the tourism industry blamed the January decline on a pricing spat with a major Canadian tour operator that reduced bookings from Canada, economic hard times in Europe and competition from lower-priced packages in the Dominican Republic and the Mexican resort of Cancun.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly more than 2.4 million tourists visited Cuba last year, an increase of 3.5 percent over 2008. Of those, the biggest number &#8212; 914,884 &#8212; were Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign manager of a Cuban hotel said tourist arrivals were down again in February and prospects for March were not encouraging because the response by tourism officials to January&#8217;s decline was too slow in coming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are running around lowering their prices now but it&#8217;s too late through March,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Also, other countries expecting fewer arrivals from Europe and the United States due to the global recession are trying to lure Canadian tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cuban tourism season got off to a rough start in 2010, with arrivals down 4.9 percent in January from the same month of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129,130,131,132,133,134,135],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-trips","tag-cuba-travel","tag-cuba-travel-news","tag-cuba-varadero","tag-cuban-tourism","tag-cuban-tourism-news","tag-cuban-tourist","tag-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hursertekinoktay.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}