Most of the visitors he said came from Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Mexico, Greece, Turkey, Japan, China and Russia.
Hotel rooms across the island currently stand at 41,000, and 70 percent of them are of the four- or five-star category, the minister revealed.
Last year (2003), about 1.9 million foreigners visited Cuba. Tourism now represents 41 percent of Cuba's foreign exchange income - a leap from just 4 percent in 1990, added the minister. – Hardbeatnews.com
