Cuba Unveils The ‘Tobacco Trail’ As Tourist Attraction

Cuba Unveils The ‘Tobacco Trail’ As Tourist Attraction

From Seed to Smoke

Cuba is preparing a new tourist attraction inspired by the country’s famous Cigar industry.

Recently, Cuba’s Tourism Ministry announced is it launch the Tobacco Trail in September, during this year’s tourism and nature fair in westernmost Pinar del Rio province, home to its lush Tobacco plantations.

“We aim to show visitors all the steps involved in an enterprise that has distinguished this province for centuries,” said Deborah Henriquez, the agancy’s provincial delegate.

The Tobacco Trail will begin at Consolacion del Sur, the gateway to the province, and feature the verdant Vinales Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where the leaves used to roll Cuba’s world-renowned Habanos are cultivated.

The regions Tobacco is prized as the world’s finest, the attraction will cover the production cycle, from the Seeds to Smoke.

Together with the provincial administrative council has selected the plantations, the Tobacco barns, the different facilities of the pre-processing phase, and the experienced producers.

Tourists will also visit factories where Cuba’s premium hand-rolled Cigars are individually made. The national industry produces some 140-M cigars each year.

Cuba aims to diversify its tourist attractions and draw visitors inland. The country’s beach resort of Varadero is already well known to the 3-M foreign visitors that arrive in Cuba annually, mainly from Canada and Europe.

Triggered by the restoration of ties between Cuba and the United States, tourism to the island has increased, rising more than 21% in May compared to that of the year before, according to the national statistics institute.

Cuba is home to 9 UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sites, including the Vinales Valley, which the UN agency describes as ringed by mountains and dotted with a series of “dramatic” rocky outcrops “that rise abruptly from the flat plain.”

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Paul Ebeling

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