Cuba received only 196,004 tourists in January, its worst figure for that month since 2022, when the country was beginning to emerge from the pandemic.
This is 24.6% less than the same period in 2024 — a decrease of almost 64,000 tourists — according to figures published by the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI).
According to ONEI data, the number of visitors in the first month of the year — one of the main months of the so-called high season — is considerably far from the 259,898 in January 2024 and the 249,255 in January 2023.
On the other hand, it does exceed the 86,483 reported in the same period in 2022.
After failing to meet the government’s goal of 2.7 million visitors — a figure reduced…
