Former Cuban President Fidel Castro died today in Havana. His vision and leadership over 5 decades going against 11 US presidents is very much a guidance for the new Cuban regime. Airlines are now connecting both the United States and Cuba again, but Fidel speeches over the last 5 decades make sense.
Cuba is not looking at tourism as some sort of short-term solution that exploits people’s curiosity about the island. Nor does it see tourism as “a necessary evil” in the heart of a socialist society, explanations sometimes given by those confused about the impressive dynamism of the Cuban tourist sector. Tourism in Cuba is a strategic development associated with creating a new concept of sustainable tourism from the vantage point of its ecological, economic, and social dimensions.
