Matanzas delegation on its way to final sessions of the Tourism Congress.

They are 27 union representatives of hotel and non-hotel facilities of the State and private management, an exact symbiosis between veteran union leaders and young people inspired by their example, and some by their parents, from whom they received the first teachings of an organization such as the CTC.
An essential tribute to National Hero José Martí at the Parque de la Libertad was paid by the Matanzas delegates before leaving for Havana, where the final sessions of the Third National Conference of the Hotel and Tourism Workers Union (STHT) will take place on the 16th and 17th.
They are 27 union representatives of hotel and non-hotel facilities of the State and private management, an exact symbiosis between veteran union leaders and young people inspired by their example, and some of them by their parents, from whom they received the first teachings of an organization like the CTC, which on January 28th will reach its 86th anniversary of its foundation.
«I had my first teacher at home. I admired him since I was a child for the passion with which I listened to him speak when he realized the injustice committed against a worker. My father Oswaldo passed away, but he is remembered a lot in tourism,» confessed Yadira Cruell Rodríguez, delegate for the Gran Caribe business group.
Arnaldo Díaz Hiedra, the longest-serving of the group, will attend his Third Conference with the same enthusiasm as the first time, «because we always have the mandate to give voice to the results and concerns of the workers», confesses the secretary general of the union bureau of the emblematic Sol Palmeras hotel.
At her side is Mariam Cabrera, the youngest, attentive to everything she can so as not to be out of place, she says, in a delegation where there are people she admires for their great preparation. «Listening to them is the best training,» says the Viajes Cubanacán commercial specialist.
«We are already at the Conference. Representing the workers, affiliated or not, is the purpose that moves us to participate in this, our tourism congress,» assured Yarisleydis Torriente, general secretary of the provincial bureau of the Hotel and Tourism Workers Union.
Torriente heads the Yumurina representation to the relevant event, which will be attended by 140 delegates from the country, who, according to the program, on Thursday 16 will meet in the morning with authorities of the Ministry of Tourism, and then in the afternoon with the different hotel and non-hotel groups.
On the 17th will be the plenary session, the debate of the summary report of the union management in the last five years and the election of the new STHT National Committee.
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Written by Eva Luna Acosta Armiñán.