• Submitted by: lena campos
• Travel and Tourism
• 05 / 14 / 2013

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A huge tourist investment aimed at building a large number of hotels on the keys off the northern Cuban coast demands the services of many designers from all companies, said the executive secretary of the Design Office Jesus Lacera.
 
Lacera told the Cuban News Agency that the sector pursues a very ambitious project from the qualitative and quantitative perspectives, in tune with the government’s consideration that tourism currently is the locomotive of Cuban economy.

Over 45 thousand new hotel rooms will be added to the tourist center on the northern keys, in five-star hotels, plus thoroughfares, airports and marinas, as well as gulf courses, said the Marketing vice-president of the Gaviota Hotel Group.

Other important works include the Mariel Special Development Zone, at the Mariel harbor located 49 kilometers west of Havana. This zone will operate on a specific customs system for the imports and exports of goods, local productions and the sale of merchandize with added value, Lacera noted.

He also referred to prioritized housing programs in the industrial and mining sectors, as well as the Santa Lucia-Castellanos ore mines, on the northwestern section of western Pinar del Rio province.

Open pit operations began at the ore reserves in the 1970s to extract pyrites, which are used to produce sulfuric acid, as well as to extract gold and silver.

Source: ACN