Cuba will receive flights from South Korea for the first time

Cuba will receive for the first timeflights from South Korea which will be operated by the companyAir Premia, based in Seoul, reported official media.

The charter flights will begin in December with a weekly frequency, and will be the longest air journey covered by tourist flights from the South Korean market to any other destination, he assured this TuesdayLatin Press the dominicanJosé Luis Leonardo, vice president for the Americas of the Southeast Asian hotel chain Archipelago International.

The airline Air Premia will be in charge of carrying out the 12 contracted trips and will use a Boeing 787-9 aircraft for 330 passengers, the executive indicated.

The project will be coordinated by the South Korean tour operatorIsland Resort Club Tour Services & RC Hotel Click, run by Robert Choi, and Archipelago International, which manages six hotels in Cuba.

South Korean tourists will be able to choose between one of the chain's hotels located in Havana: the five-star Grand Aston La Habana and the Aston Panorama Hotel, a four-star establishment.

The stay can be combined with the Grand Aston Varadero, which Archipelago International will open in that resort on September 1.

“This operation will open the way and serve as preparation for the other projects that we are working on from Japan and China,” said the manager.

The hotel chain also manages the Grand Aston Cayo Paredón, with 635 rooms, in Jardines del Rey; Aston Costa Verde, in Playa Pesquero, Holguín, with 749 bedrooms; and the Grand Aston Cayo Las Brujas, with 727 rooms, in the northern keys of Villa Clara.

The agreement to attract South Korean travelers is another of the regime's bets to save the tourism sector, which continues to be the bet to stimulate the critical Cuban economy.

Recently achinese agency He also began the promotion of Cuba as a tourist destination in the Asian nation, after it was included among the first 20 countries approved to resume group travel.

The Cuban agency Havanatur and the Chinese tour operatorTumei International Travel They signed a memorandum of understanding that "seeks to promote the arrival of tourists to the largest of the Antilles to enjoy the reliable and safe destination."

The Cuban government assured that this month the country reachedmillion visitors so far in 2023, although they expected to have already received around 1.2 million by this date.

With these numbers, the country would barely reachthree million tourists at the end of the year, still far from the intended 3.5 million that the Cuban government aspires to achieve in 2023.