Increases in Camagüey permanency of international tourism

The Havana-The county of Camagüey, to 550 kilometers of Havana, was that of bigger growth of the quantity of days of foreign tourists' stay in Cuba during the first semester of 2010.

According to the publication Tourism, indicators for territories, of the National Office of Statistical (ONE), the permanency of the strange vacationers in this territory increased by 22 percent, of January to June of the present year.

In the second and third positions, according to this indicator, the county of Santiago de Cuba and the special municipality of Island of the Youth are located, with 13 six percent of growth, respectively.

The destination of Camagüey offers a tourist product of great singularity, integrated by 25 percent of the beaches of Cuba, included Santa Lucía, with excellent conditions for the diving and the sport fishing.

Equally conjugates its natural kindness with attractive citizen, as the historical center of its provincial capital, with near 500 years of having been founded and declared Patrimony of the Humanity for the Organization of the United Nations for the Education, the Science and the Culture.

Well-known formerly as village of Santa María of the Prince's Port, is famous for its earthenjar and cradle of personalities, as the writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and the biggest General Ignacio Agramonte and Loynaz, eminent person of the independence of Cuba. (Saili Dominguez Cruz / AIN).