Published on
30/07/2026 - 11:46 GMT+2
Cuba’s tourism sector has been brought to "almost total paralysis" by US sanctions and fuel shortages, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero said, with nearly three-quarters of hotels now closed.
Detailing the scale of the tourism crisis for the first time, Marrero said seven international chains, responsible for about half of all hotel rooms, had now left the island.
Tourism had been Cuba's second-largest source of foreign currency earnings, employing more than 300,000 people before the crisis deepened this year.
