Varadero (VRA)
The Varadero airport is a relativally young airport, which has developed through tourism. It was built in the 1970s and was completely restored in 2007. During this year, mechanical escalators have been added, as well as expansion of the boarding and waiting area, in order to eventually accommodate our company who hesitated between Havana and Varadero as a seat. Varadero has been chosen since it is really a place to discover.
The airport should develop, with funding from the company, six additional runways in 2012-2013 to improve the ever-increasing air traffic in Varadero. This will bring the number of runways to eight in total.
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Varadero, the City
The History
Hicacos Peninsula was discovered in 1508 during an exploration trip with, to the head, the Spanish Sebastián de Ocampo. In 1540 the site appears in a map drawn by Alonso de Santa Cruz. The Spanish conquistadors were expelled the indigenous population of the peninsula during the sixteenth century and have changed the location of stranding and salt mine in détruisants its forests in a short time. The salt mine has supplied much of the Spanish fleet from 1587 and has served in operations until 1961. The natural caves on the peninsula served as a hiding place for pirates and escaped slaves (Maroons). In one of them, D'Ambrosio cave, all of pictographess is the largest in the Caribbean.
The Tourism
Since the 1990s, initiated the construction of a large number of hotels for international tourism (especially 4 and 5 star category according to a national funded through foreign investment in the short term) with the objective of developing tourism as an important source of funds and to alleviate the economic crisis after the collapse of the socialist field. Parallel to the increase in tourism, there are the eviction of local people directional positions in state sectors, community and economic as well as its substitution by managers coming from other parts of Cuba. Facilities such as El Parque de las Tequillas 8000, cinema and other cultural and community centers fall into neglect and were subsequently closed. The International Carnival sees its last edition in 1995. We abandon the concept of tourism for the full concentration of tourist activities in the complex "all inclusive". In the town of Varadero, 20,000 people are currently living, of these 7000 and 13,000 in the peninsula populated places in Santa de Marte and the Mouth of Camarioca. Varadero receives about 1 million visitors. Varadero continues to be the first tourist center of Cuba and provides 30-40% of revenues in this sector.