HAVANA, May 4 (Xinhua) — The Cuban authorities is stepping up its dedication to sustainable tourism, implementing measures to guard seashores and biodiversity from the influence of local weather change in the Caribbean area.
As a part of these actions, the nation continues to hold out a authorities plan launched in 2017 to undertake adaptation methods to deal with a altering local weather, with the participation of various sectors of the Cuban economic system and society.
The plan consists of targets to be met by 2030, in addition to long- and really long-term methods for 2050 and 2100, in accordance with authorities in the scientific sector of Cuba.
Minister of Science, Technology and Environment Elba Rosa Perez instructed Xinhua that tourism growth plans name for constructing resorts additional away from the shoreline, as a result of potential rise in sea ranges over the approaching many years.
Work can be being executed to guard sand dunes, and the natural world at tourism locations.
“The tourism sector has been, and is, strategic given its contribution to financial and social improvement, in concord with the safety of the setting,” Perez mentioned, noting that funding tasks are underway to enhance water administration and recycling.
Head of the seaside restoration challenge on the island’s Jardines del Rey tourism vacation spot, Miguel Izquierdo, burdened the significance of the initiative carried out on the website by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, and the Ministry of Tourism.
“This challenge emerges from the necessity to fight coastal erosion, which in Cuba’s case happens extra severely on the coasts of the keys, resulting from their fragility,” mentioned Izquierdo.
The science and tourism sectors are working collectively to advertise sustainable tourism in Varadero, Cuba’s prime seaside resort, in addition to in marshy Cienaga de Zapata and keys to the north of Villa Clara province, amongst different websites of curiosity.
According to Cuban meteorologist Jose Rubiera, coming hurricane seasons will likely be extra lively in the Caribbean area, a indisputable fact that should be taken under consideration to take efficient local weather change motion.
“We could have extra hurricanes and subsequently extra coastal flooding, so danger administration is crucial,” mentioned the meteorologist, highlighting Cuba’s progress in that route.
So far this yr, Cuba has welcomed greater than 450,000 international guests, and is on monitor to see greater than 2.5 million worldwide vacationers by yr’s finish, knowledge from the Tourism Ministry present.
The island nation is dwelling to 6 biosphere reserves acknowledged by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 14 nationwide parks and greater than 200 seaside resorts.
