Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, March 4. - Cuba celebrates Hospitality and Tourism Worker's Day today with a call from the nation's highest authorities to deploy innovative initiatives to improve the sector and generate more income.
Prime Minister Manuel Marrero considered this force decisive for the reboost of the national economy that is going through adversity due to the tightening of the United States blockade.
During a recent act of recognition for outstanding personnel during 2024, the head of Government highlighted the importance of human capital to achieve success in the activity.
In this context, he urged professionals and managers of the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur, for its acronym in Spanish) to strengthen internal communication and maintain a favorable work environment that fosters unity in the face of current challenges.
Marrero also called for intensifying the preparation and updating of these public servants, whom he described as ambassadors of the nation before foreign tourists, reported national media. The Prime Minister also highlighted the sector's contribution to strengthening the socialist state enterprise, increasing ties with other economic actors and generating greater income in foreign currency.
The Day of the Hospitality and Tourism Worker of the Caribbean island pays tribute to Elpidio Sosa, assailant and martyr of the Moncada Barracks (July 26, 1953, Santiago de Cuba, east), who maintained a brave and altruistic attitude during that feat.
In the organizational phase of the Moncada action, Sosa, a gastronomic employee of the “Bar Oriente located in San Miguel and Consulado, in Havana, sold his place to contribute money to the revolutionary cause.
At only 24 years old, he was taken prisoner and murdered within the walls of the Moncada Barracks, a Santiago fortress besieged by the insurgent movement led by the young lawyer Fidel Castro, marking the restart of the armed struggle for the definitive independence of Cuba. (Text and photo: PL)
