Gaviota

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Transgaviota bus in Havana

Grupo de Turismo Gaviota SA (Gaviota Spanish seagull ) is a state-owned Cuban tourism company based in Havana . Through joint ventures , Gaviota has interests in numerous hotels in Cuba and offers a wide range of tourism services including car rental, guided tours, travel agency and catering. In contrast to other state tourism companies, Gaviota is subordinate to the Cuban armed forces .

Gaviota's origins go back to running recreational centers for Soviet consultants in the 1960s. With the expansion of international tourism to an important pillar of the Cuban economy since the late 1980s, the company grew steadily. Gaviota, headed by Brigadier General Luis Pérez Róspide, employed around a quarter of the Cuban military in 2004 and generated around 30 percent of the military budget. Róspide's predecessor, Colonel Manuel Marrero Cruz, was appointed Minister of Tourism in 2004.

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  1. ↑ Capitol Hill Cubans: How Castro Exploits Cuban Workers. In: capitolhillcubans.com. November 27, 2012, accessed February 24, 2014 .
  2. ↑ About Us, on the Gaviota website, accessed September 30, 2014
  3. ↑ Claes Brundenius: El turismo como “locomotora” de crecimiento: reflexiones sobre la nueva estrategia de desarrollo de Cuba. in: Mauricio Miranda Parondo (ed.): Cuba: Reestructuración económica y globalización. Centro Editorial Javeriano, Bogotá 2003, p. 272 at Google Books (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Felipe Eduardo Sixto: Cuban Trade and Tourism: Economic, Political, and Social Concerns (PDF), in: Cuba in Transition: Volume 16 , Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 2006 (English)
  5. ↑ Kristina Mani: Military Entrepreneurs: Patterns in Latin America ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / new.oberlin.edu archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), in: Latin American Politics and Society, Volume 53, Issue 3, pp. 25–55, Fall 2011, here: p. 41 (English)
  6. ↑ Nancy San Martin: Cuba's tourism chief replaced by army colonel, in: Miami Herald of February 12, 2004, accessed on September 30, 2014 (English)

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