Cuban Tourism during the Special Period
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In 1990, in an attempt to deal with the devastating impact the collapse of the Soviet bloc inflicted on the Cuban economy, Cuban authorities announced the start of “the special period in time of peace,” an economic adjustment program. The following year the Fourth Communist Party Congress ratified the program and spelled out its main components: (a) a food (Plan Alimentario) and energy import substitution program; (b) the promotion of key traditional exports, such as sugar, as well as new exports, in particular tourism and biotechnology; (c) the encouragement of foreign capital; and (d) some decentralization and moderate reforms in the management of enterprises (Ritter 1994). Earmarked as a key sector, international tourism was to be promoted as “an important source of revenue for economic development.”
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