Cayo Coco Key, off the northern coast of central Ciego de Avila province, is one of the tourist centers picked by Canada’s Starr-up Cruise Ship Company for its winter itinerary.

Chile’s PAL Airlines inaugurated weekly flights to the Cuban tourist center of Varadero with 388-passanger-capacity A-320 airplanes.

The deputy director of Belarus' Belavia airline company, Igor Cherginets, expressed his interest in giving the first steps towards close collaboration relations with Cuba.

Cuba has all conditions to receive over 3 million tourists in 2013, said Tourism minister Manuel Marrero in Havana.

A new direct air connection between the Mexican city of Monterrey and Havana will be inaugurated on October 25, which will favor an increasing number of Mexican visitors to Cuba. The new service will be provided by the Interjet airline company on Thursdays and Sundays, with 150 reservations a day Prensa Latina news agency reported.

A new and direct air connection, by Interjet airlines Company from Monterrey, Mexico, to Havana will favor the flow of Mexican vacationers to Cuba.

Cuba will host from 15 to 20 October the third annual International Fishing Tournament Jardines del Rey, known as "Big Game Trolling".

Several US agencies have reported bureaucratic obstacles imposed by the government to renew their licenses and prevent them from organizing trips to Cuba, subject for over half a century to US economic, commercial and financial blockade.

Over 57,000 Russian tourists have arrived in Cuba since the beginning of the year, representing a 120.48 percent increase compared to the same period last year, Cuban Tourism Ministry representative in Moscow, Estefania Escobar, told Prensa Latina.

The 13th International Wine Festival of Havana at the National Hotel of Cuba constitutes a major boost for the development of high-end tourism in the island, organizers of the upcoming event said Thursday.