Cuba taps into high-end luxury tourist market

HAVANA: In Havana, there's a shop selling a camera for more than US$25,000 - roughly 850 times the average monthly wage in Cuba.

But the hotel isn't exactly looking for locals to buy in - it attracts"a clientele of private airplanes ... princes and celebrities," according to general manager Xavier Destribats. "It really doesn't feel like Cuba, clearly not - it feels like being in the United States, Miami or Puerto Rico," said Celia Liegeois, a 26-year-old tourist from Paris.

"I live in Dubai so when you talk about luxury hotels, the level there is really high, but I think I'll like this hotel," she said, while her friend used a drone to get an aerial view of the building. The foreign hotel groups are only allowed to run the establishments, all built by French group Bouygues, which has a long-standing local presence.

A worker cleans the Spa Albear at the Gran Manzana Hotel in Havana, which opened in 2017 in a sumptuous building that was once home to the island's first shopping mall AFP/Yamil LAGE

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