Santa Lucia, the main tourist center of this region in the center-east of Cuba, returns today to place its hopes on travelers from Canada, Russia, Spain, Italy, Germany and the United States.

The tour of different tour operators has served to strengthen the criteria and opinion of the main travel agencies, criteria that in turn prestige the destination of sun and beach that precisely the day before the Residential Hotel Planta Real opened, with 35 rooms and the Four star category.

Despite the constant measures of the United States government to prevent the rise of tourism in Cuba, the international airport terminal Ignacio Agramonte of the city of Camagüey alone in 2017 experienced an increase in operations to receive 250 thousand passengers from various destinations, according to official statistics .

The last five years have been characterized by the work of sales agents of the Russian tour operator Pegas Touristik, who appreciate the values ​​not only of the spa but also of the main city of the territory, whose Historic Center was declared Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008 by the Unesco

In statements by Tatiana Shnell, at the head of the tour of the Russian agency through the province, said that 'the fundamental product promoted by Pegas Touristik is sun and beach, but we are interested in complementing our clients' stay with excursions to the city, as a way to get to know Cuba and its people '.

By 2020, construction projects will begin that will last until 2025 and we will strengthen the main poles, and in the provincial capital this year we will advance in works such as the San Juan de Dios hotel, said the director of the Mintur operations group in Camagüey, Bertha Rodríguez.

Saint Lucia, distant just over 100 kilometers north of this city, intends to become one of Cuba's main tourist destinations, thanks to its natural potentials, which include one of the most important coral reefs in the entire Caribbean.