Established since 2014 with the objective of improving the leisure industry through science, training and the contribution of personnel, these studies are another of the supports of the region that houses more than 20 percent of the Cuban beaches.

In conversations between Prensa Latina and the vice dean of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, to which the Tourism program belongs, Ramón Hernández, we were able to learn about the more than a thousand graduates, particularly distributed in the municipalities of Minas, Sierra de Cubitas, Nuevitas and the capital city.

“We are going to hold the fifth graduation ceremony of the course recently and the students are located in the municipality of Camagüey, in all the hotel and non-hotel networks of our municipality, as well as in the beach of Santa Lucía and in the Cayo Cruz hub,” he said.

With Gaviota as the main employer of those who graduate from the Camagüeyan University, the new professionals have successfully joined the sector.

“We have received excellent criteria from the directors of hotels and construction sites both in Cayo Cruz and in the Santa Lucía hub,” said Hernández in the interview.

Regarding the pedagogues and professionals who teach the different subjects at the UC, he also said that “the teaching staff of the course are not only university professors, but we also have excellent ones from the School of Tourism Training, and specialist managers from the Ministry of Tourism in Camagüey.”

Hernández also referred to the two keynote lectures that he brought to Manuel Marrero Cruz, currently Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, and who was the head of the Ministry of Tourism in Cuba, on two occasions.

To celebrate the date of the tenth anniversary of the start of the degree on Camagüey soil, a meeting between graduates was also scheduled, in addition to exchanges of specialists linked to the university.

Cuba has the leisure sector as one of its priorities in the development agenda, which is why the scientific section is fundamental and the improvement of professionals in centers such as the University of Camagüey itself is essential to achieve better service standards and boost this economic sector.

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