SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico. – Juan Carlos García Granda, Minister of Tourism in Cuba, expressed his hope that, in the short term, the number of Russian tourists could rise to half a million, while he is in the position he now holds.
The Cuban regime expects to receive more than 200,000 Russian tourists this year and up to half a million in the future, as optimistically stated by the Minister of Tourism at a press conference with the Russian news agency TASS.
In turn, he added: “I hope that in the short term, as long as I continue to be minister, we reach half a million.”
In that same session, García Granda, who traveled to Moscow as part of a regime delegation that will participate in the XXI session of the intergovernmental commission for economic-commercial and scientific-technical collaboration between Cuba and Russia, stated that the Russian MIR payment card has arrived “to stay and boost Russian t