U.S. hotel chain Marriott International is ready to do business in Cuba, when U.S. laws of the economic, commercial and financial restrictions on the island allow it, general director of that company, Arne Sorenson, said.
U.S. hotel chain Marriott International is ready to do business in Cuba, when U.S. laws of the economic, commercial and financial restrictions on the island allow it, general director of that company, Arne Sorenson, said.
Sorenson recently spent several days on the Caribbean island and said he verified there we are in a historic moment in the relationship between Washington and Havana after the restoration of diplomatic ties and the reopening of their respective embassies on July 20.
In an article posted in the website Progreso Semanal, de Miami, Florida, he said that while the U.S. law still allows Marriott doing business in Cuba, the decisions by President Barack Obama regarding the Caribbean nation started a global race in which companies from other countries have already involved.
Companies from other nations are now speeding up to use this opportunity before chains such as Marriott and other American competitors appear, the executive says.
Sorenson states that the companies of the northern nation should be allowed to compete in this new travel business, because this contributes that the bilateral relations are increasingly stronger and constructive.
Our hotels will employ thousands of Cubans and will be able to welcome tens of thousands of visitors to Cuba, said the manager of Marriott, a company with about one million rooms in hotels around the world.
According Sorenson, U.S. travel to Cuba will double this year, even before the prohibition to go to the neighboring nation is eliminated, but if the Congress acts to repeal that restriction, the number of American visitors is likely to increase to five million in just a few years.
Source: PL