Tourism gives priority to productive alliances with economic stakeholders.

Encouraged by the objective of increasing productive linkages, ensuring stability in the supply of goods and favoring even more the substitution of imports, the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) in Matanzas strengthens its link with the different forms of management.

The intention is endorsed by 589 contracts, 369 above the same stage as in 2022, as a result, fundamentally, of the commercial relations with 190 Credit and Service Cooperatives, 184 independent producers, 95 self-employed workers, 92 MSMEs, 18 Non-Agricultural Cooperatives, five Agricultural Cooperatives, three local development projects, two Basic Units of Cooperative Production.

Also contributing foodstuffs are the Jagüey Grande Citrus Combine, with the delivery of juices and nectars, the protected crop houses of the Victoria de Girón Agroindustrial Company, and the Cárdenas zeoponic, from where vegetables are produced.

Likewise, the participation of the Ceballos Agroindustrial Enterprise and the La Cuba Miscellaneous Crops Enterprise, both from Ciego de Avila, is significant.

Producing for tourism is not an option. In the midst of these difficult economic conditions, state and private actors have the challenge of placing in the resort the largest amount of resources manufactured in the country, considered Nastia Valdés, MINTUR delegate in the province.

She added that although the attention to the tourism insurance program is a regular practice, the check-up is intensified in this season of increased tourism, which runs from November 2023 to April 2024.

Valdés thanked those who favor the direct link between farmers and hotels, thanks to which today they guarantee a high percentage of fresh produce, both agricultural and processed, consumed in the facilities.

However, he admitted, we perceive that there are reserves in the territory to obtain what today is still being bought abroad, which makes the activity more expensive and threatens the excellence of the services in the sector.

Written by  Eva Luna Acosta Armiñán.