13 February 2016, 00:00 GMT
ROSTOV-ON-DON (Sputnik) — Russian authorities advised its travel agencies against selling package tours to Turkey after the downing of a Russian warplane over Syria by a Turkish jet, while flights between Russia and Egypt were stopped following a terror attack on a Russian airliner over Sinai last year.
"The flow of Russian tourists to Turkey and Egypt is diminishing, so Cuba is ready to welcome Russian visitors," Emilio Lozada García said, adding the nation would welcome "all tourists from Russia."
A representative of the Cuban Embassy in Moscow vowed Thursday that Havana would think of ways to make Cuba tours more affordable for guests from Russia, where the national currency has lost more than half of its value against the dollar.
