HAVANA, Oct 16 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Cuba received 1,396,921 travellers from January to August 2022, which represents a 556.1 percent year-on-year increase, the National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI) reported on Friday.
According to ONEI, Cuba received 1,145,743 more travelers than in the same period in 2021, understanding as such any person who travels between two or more different countries.
Of the total number, 971,456 were international visitors, who accounted for 807,732 (593.3 percent) more than in the period between January and August in 2020.
By country, 298,410 visitors came from Canada, as well as from the United States (60,885), Spain (55,102), and the Russian Federation (38,488).
Meanwhile, 212,485 travelers are part of the Cuban community abroad.
The figures show a gradual recovery of the tourism sector in Cuba after the collapse of visitors in 2021, when the country received 573,944 international travelers, 60 percent fewer than the previous year.
Meanwhile, on the occasion of the six decades of life of the Havana Graphic Workshop, creators of that institution make up the list of the exhibition Without Borders, installed in NEW YORK, United States.
The Taller Boricua in the U.S. city is hosting the exhibition signed by 76 artists, whose works showcase the quality that distinguishes the work of the island’s institution, considered a center for training and experimentation, according to the National Council of Plastic Arts.
Curated by Nitza Tufiño, director of the gallery, and Cuban Aliosky Garcia, the exhibition is part of a series of international actions promoted by the Graphic Workshop to celebrate the Cuban Culture Day (Oct 20).
According to the official website of the Taller Boricua, the exhibition is a panoramic sample of contemporary Cuban engraving, with pieces made in the last decade by artists of different generations.
This proposal intends to show the island’s engraving as a manifestation as expressive and contemporary as other visual arts, with a first-rate quality, marked by a variety of techniques such as woodcut, intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, collagraphy and monotype,’ the presentation of the project points out.
Likewise, the document points out that the exhibition aims at breaking down barriers, overcoming obstacles, overcoming differences of all kinds, building bridges and strengthening ties. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
