Cuba: 15% hotel occupancy in 2022 after 6% the previous year

Despite the fact that Cuba did not reach the target for tourist arrivals during 2022, Canadian travelers held off the crisis to achieve a rebound of more than 200% with a hotel occupancy rate of just 15.6%, compared to 2021 when it was barely 5.7% of rooms occupied. ..

According to data published by the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), in 2022 Canada topped the list of international tourists arriving on the island, with a total of 532,487 visitors, followed by Cubans residing abroad with 333,191 visitors.

For their part, Americans have 100,494 tourists arriving in Cuba in 2022, followed by Spain, England, Russia, Italy and Germany. “Cuba’s low hotel occupancy rate was much lower than that of beach destinations in Mexico (63.9% in May 2022) and the Dominican Republic, with rates exceeding 70% in Punta Cana and Romana Bayahibe in 2022,” said the Cuban economist. Pedro Monreal, according to Cybercopa.

By 2023, the Cuban government expects the arrival of more than three million international visitors, and in the first months of the year it received 500,000 tourists.

As mentioned REPORTUR.mxRecently, Gabriel Escarrer, Vice President and CEO of Meliá, predicted that Cuba would soon reach the level of natural tourism with the opening of Canada, the main source for the island. (Escarrer: “In a short time, tourist life in Cuba will be normal”).

It suffered from a severe storm due to its dependence on tourism. The main issuance market is Canada and Canada is among the four countries that have placed more restrictions on travel outside the country. Since Christmas, it’s getting a lot better. “In a short time we will have complete normality, in terms of tourism, in Cuba,” Escarrer said at the time in an interview with Diario de Mallorca.