Cuba, a country where vacationers can find a wide range of tourist options, offers ideal conditions on the path to the future development of the so-called smokeless industry.

Cuba's tourism programs are mainly based on sun and beach options, which become true adventures for those who bet on the Caribbean island to spend their vacations.

Tours to the country's mountain ecosystems are also highly demanded by foreign tourists who bet on Cuba to spend their vacations.

The potential of ecotourism lies in the Cuba's relief, which consists of four main mountain ranges that cover about 21 percent of the island's territory and hold 37 percent of the country's forests.

In addition, protected areas, biosphere reserves, swamps and regions inhabited by endemic flora and fauna, which can be watched in their entire magnitude, are available to tourists along specialized trails.

In Cuba, vacationers can also combine recreation with medical treatments at several health institutions and specialized hotels near springs of medicinal water.

Medicinal waters are among Cuba's tourist options that are highly demanded by vacationers from the Americas and Europe who want to improve their quality of life.

Many tourists come to Cuba to practice parachuting, scuba diving and carting races, which take place in several tourist resorts, thus contributing to strengthening the interrelation between sports and tourism.

In addition, diving can be practiced in more than 70,000 kilometers of Cuban insular platform, which has some 5,000 kilometers of coast bathed by the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Western Matanzas province holds the special marine park Cayo Piedras del Norte, which is an excellent place for scuba diving, and the ecological reserve in Punta Hicacos, a safe haven for 662 species of birds that live in Mangón Lagoon, in addition to the aboriginal pictographs in the caves of Ambrosio and Musulmanes.

In the southern part of that province is the Zapata Swamp Biosphere Reserve, a stronghold for nature tourism, an ideal place for marine spelunking and the largest swamp in the Caribbean region.

Cuba has a broad tourist infrastructure consisting of large and small hotels everywhere in the country, which is visited by thousands of foreign vacationers every year.