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Tourists Flowed to Cuba in Record
Numbers in January
Havana, Mar 5 (PL) Cuba has recorded a 12.4 per cent
increase in visitor arrivals for January this year,
as compared to the same period in 2003. A total of
214, 242 tourists visited the island in January,
surpassing the number of arrivals in the same month
last year by 23,573.
This year’s arrivals were the highest for a
four-year period. In 2002, Cuba tourism officials
said 140,792 tourists visited the Caribbean island,
while in 2001, the figure stood at 188, 652.
In 2000, Cuba welcomed 163,786 tourists to its
shores, according to the official figures. Tourism
officials said that Canada, Italy, France, Germany,
the United Kingdom, Venezuela, Spain and Mexico were
still the island’s principal markets.
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