Cuba received 1,174,888 international visitors until May, the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) reported this Saturday, which placed Canada, the Cuban community abroad, the United States, the Russian Federation and England as the main senders to the country. .
In the publication Arrival of travelers. International visitors. May 2024based on data from the Directorate of Identification, Immigration and Immigration, the ONEI specifies that the figure of 1,174,888 international visitors is 102.7% (30,954 more visitors) than that registered in the period January-May 2023.
In a list of visitors by selected countries, the ONEI places Canada in the top positions (541,871, 99.5% compared to January-May 2023); the Cuban community abroad (129,714, 89.3% compared to the figure from a year ago); United States (102,767/ 185.5%); the Russian Federation (70,668/ 104.5%) and England (33,351/ 97.4%).
Next, other markets from which travelers arrived are Germany (28,008), France (25,253), Italy (22,465), Spain (21,543) and Mexico (20,237).
Compared to January-May 2023, France (116.2%) and Spain (124.8%) had growth.
An international visitor – the ONEI specifies in the document – is someone who “visits a country different from the one in which he or she has his or her usual place of residence for a period not exceeding one year, the main reason for which will be for the purpose of leisure, recreation, business. or other personal reason, and is not to carry out a remunerated activity in the country visited.
By month, the international visitor numbers were 259,898 in January, 268,201 in February, 281,139 in March, 215,158 in April and 150,492 in May.
