{"id":13899,"date":"2025-09-15T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=13899"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:40:43","slug":"cuba-rural-tourism-conference-will-evoke-fidel-castros-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/cuba-rural-tourism-conference-will-evoke-fidel-castros-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba: Rural Tourism Conference will Evoke Fidel Castro&#8217;s Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/fidel_castro-e1700923404545.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"282\" \/>Guant\u00e1namo.- Fidel Castro&#8217;s strategic thinking on agritourism stands out as a key topic at the 10th Ibero-American Meeting on Rural Tourism and Agritourism, to be held from September 29 to October 5 in various locations across Western Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Longino Franquiz Dom\u00ednguez, Director of Events and Incentives at the travel agency ECOTUR, recalled the visit that the leader of the Cuban Revolution paid to Vi\u00f1ales, in the province of Pinar del R\u00edo, where he championed the idea of implementing an agritourism reform as part of the nationwide land reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThus the necessary adjustments would be made in tourist sites to develop agricultural tourism\u201d, he remarked. \u201cInitially, the Commander considered the Vi\u00f1ales and Anc\u00f3n Valleys to build cabins for the farmers which they could rent to tourists and arrange for amenities such as horseback riding in order to improve the local economy by generating additional tourism income\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The official pointed out that the plan envisaged the provision of tourism education to farmers and the training of rural girls to embroider and weave souvenirs with criollo motifs.<\/p>\n<p>The ideas of the eternal leader will be essential to this event organized by the Ibero-American Institute of Rural Tourism and the Cuban Ministry of Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>With the theme \u201cFor Sustainable Community Development\u201d, the 10th Ibero-American Meeting on Rural Tourism and Agritourism will address topics such as advances in agritourism, sustainable local tourism, communication and artificial intelligence in this sector, community inclusion, products, governance and marketing, and the contribution of agritourism to climate change mitigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guant\u00e1namo.- Fidel Castro&#8217;s strategic thinking on agritourism stands out as a key topic at the 10th Ibero-American Meeting on Rural Tourism and Agritourism, to be held from September 29 to October 5 in various locations across Western Cuba. Francisco Longino Franquiz Dom\u00ednguez, Director of Events and Incentives at the travel agency ECOTUR, recalled the visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13900,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions\/13900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}