TORONTO, ON, December 15, 2012 (Press-News.org) Toronto based Authentic Cuba Travel has already published almost forty tour departures for 2013 and counting. The Canadian company offers North American travelers the chance to get an up close and personal look inside the authentic Cuba through meaningful people to people exchanges and the exploration of Cuba's most unique destinations and attractions.
While travel to Cuba is still restricted for Americans, in 2011 some travel restrictions were lifted and new categories of USA Cuba Travel included allowing a larger number of US citizens to travel to Cuba legally as General License or Specific License holders. The latter includes the religious and people-to-people license.
Travel opportunities to the largest Caribbean island are abundant with Authentic Cuba Travel in 2013. Educational and cultural tours are designed around photography, performing arts, visual arts, architecture, dance, religion, health care, law and other themes. Setting the company apart from the crowd is their ability to gain access to incredible Cuban destinations. Secluded UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, UNESCO Heritage Sites and small picturesque towns and cities are all part of the Authentic Cuba Travel experience.
Among the highlights for 2013 are 6 unique Cuba Education Tours that will take US education professionals to get to know up close and personal the life and work of Cuban counterparts and learn about the Cuban education system while traversing historical towns and cities away from the tourist traps. Designed with hardworking K12 teachers and university and college professors in mind, the tours are very affordable and rewarding.
Another highlight this year is the addition of 4 editions of the popular Cuba Photography Tour that has captivated North Americans photographers over the last year. A unique chance to capture through the lens the beauty and authenticity of Cuba, these tours are oriented for all levels of digital and film photography and offer exploration of Vinales Valley and Escambray Mountains as well as UNESCO Heritage sites such as Trinidad and the Sugar Mill Valley.
Featuring private visits to the studios of Cuba's up-and-coming and well-established contemporary artists today, the Cuba Art Tours offer a rare glimpse into Cuba's visual arts so estranged to the USA market over decades of political isolation. This year there would be 4 editions of the art tours that will also feature a tour of the most important and largest collection of Cuban arts in the world.
Authentic Cuba Travel has many Cuba tours centered around different festivals and events throughout the year, including the Habano Cigar Festival, the Fire Festival, the Havana Film Festival, and the world famous Cuban Jazz Festival. There will also be a Cuba tour for library professionals to attend the Havana Book Fair, which is one of the most popular events in Cuba and features international and Cuban writers, political officials, and publishers.
Touring historical cities founded by the Spaniards in colonial times, exploring secluded charming towns, and discovering the modern landscape of magnificent cities like Havana and Santiago de Cuba are among the highlights of the Cuba Architecture Tours that the company has launched for 2013.
For the nature lover, Authentic Cuba Travel will be offering several different nature tours this year to study the biodiversity of the island. Nature and Bird Watching Cuba Tours will take tour participants to explore Cuba's most significant UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, National Parks and Protected Areas while exchanging with Cuban ornithologist and scientists.
A Jewish Heritage Tour is scheduled for June 2013. Serving as an introduction into the life of the Cuban Jews before and after the Cuban Revolution, this cultural tour attempts to bring together the Jewish communities of Cuba and North America. Encounters with the Jewish communities of Santa Clara and Cienfuegos and of course in Havana city will provide memorable experiences that will last a lifetime.
Other Authentic Cuba Tours available include a Baseball Tour for sports enthusiasts, a Business Tour that focuses on the business professionals and the economy of the island, and a Health Care Tour for medical professionals who wish to learn more about the health care system in Cuba. Authentic Cuba Travel also provides tours designed for lawyers and legal professionals to learn about the Cuban legal system from the Cuban perspective.
Authentic Cuba Travel is dedicated to sustainable tourism and a large percentage of the tour revenues remain in Cuba. Tour directors and guides are among of the most experienced and knowledgeable in the industry which ensures a safe and enriching Cuba travel experience for visitors.
Authentic Cuba Travel is a full service travel agency based in Toronto, Canada that organizes cultural, educational and adventure tours for schools, NGOs, business and community groups.
Even though each year nearly 2 million tourists travel to Cuba, they hardly have the chance to get to know the authentic Cuba that lies beyond the confines of all-inclusive full-packed tourist resorts. Once back home, those travelers realize they have hardly "traveled" to Cuba. It might have been a nice and low cost package vacation from the cold weather, but they do not know much about Cuba's culture and its people.
Authentic Cuba Travel votes for a different kind of tourism for those travelers who demand more from their vacations. With over 37 fully escorted Cuba tours announced for 2013, ranging from educational and cultural to arts and architecture and festivals and events, Authentic Cuba Travel captures the Cuban identity that defines the island as a unique Caribbean nation.
Website: www.authenticubatours.com
Authentic Cuba Travel Announces Its Roster of Cuba Tours for 2013
With about 40 escorted tours to the Caribbean island announced for 2013, Authentic Cuba Travel has one of the best compilations of escorted Cuba Tours available today to North American travelers.
2012-12-15
ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:
Rural dwellers less likely to follow cancer screening guidelines
2012-12-14
SALT LAKE CITY— People who reside in rural areas of Utah are less likely to follow colorectal cancer (CRC) screening recommendations than their urban counterparts, according to researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah. This geographic disparity is evident across all risk groups, including those who have a family history of the disease.
"Our hypothesis was that geography matters," said Anita Kinney, Ph.D., R.N., who leads HCI's Cancer Control and Populations Sciences Research Program and is principal investigator of the study. "And what ...
Countering brain chemical could prevent suicides
2012-12-14
EAST LANSING, Mich. --- Researchers have found the first proof that a chemical in the brain called glutamate is linked to suicidal behavior, offering new hope for efforts to prevent people from taking their own lives.
Writing in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, Michigan State University's Lena Brundin and an international team of co-investigators present the first evidence that glutamate is more active in the brains of people who attempt suicide. Glutamate is an amino acid that sends signals between nerve cells and has long been a suspect in the search for chemical ...
Study shows antidepressant could do double duty as diabetes drug
2012-12-14
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that the commonly used antidepressant drug paroxetine could also become a therapy for the vascular complications of diabetes.
The scientists made their discovery after screening 6,766 clinically used drugs and pharmacologically active substances.
"We developed this assay and used it to test literally every single existing drug and a good selection of other biologically active compounds," said UTMB professor Csaba Szabo, senior author of a paper on the research published online by Diabetes. ...
Nanocrystals not small enough to avoid defects
2012-12-14
Nanocrystals as protective coatings for advanced gas turbine and jet engines are receiving a lot of attention for their many advantageous mechanical properties, including their resistance to stress. However, contrary to computer simulations, the tiny size of nanocrystals apparently does not safeguard them from defects.
In a study by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)and collaborators from multiple institutions, nanocrystals of nickel subjected to high pressure continued to suffer dislocation-mediated ...
Hard-to-treat Myc-driven cancers may be susceptible to drug already used in clinic
2012-12-14
PHILADELPHIA — Drugs that are used in the clinic to treat some forms of breast and kidney cancer and that work by inhibiting the signaling molecule mTORC1 might have utility in treating some of the more than 15 percent of human cancers driven by alterations in the Myc gene, according to data from a preclinical study published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
"More than 1 million people diagnosed with cancer each year have a tumor driven by alterations in the Myc gene," said Grant A. McArthur, M.D., Ph.D., professor of translational ...
Use 'em, don't lose 'em! Eating egg yolks adds nutritious benefits
2012-12-14
Park Ridge, Ill. (December 14, 2012) – It is estimated that 34% of Americans are affected by an increasingly prevalent condition known as metabolic syndrome which is a combination of at least three of the following risk factors: large waistline, high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, high blood pressure and elevated blood sugar.(i) These individuals have a variety of risk factors that increase the likelihood of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Decades of mixed messaging regarding dietary cholesterol have led to avoidance of certain foods, such as eggs, ...
Biostatistics serving biomedicine: International meeting of biostaticians in Barcelona
2012-12-14
Statistics have entered the life sciences and they are here to stay. This science emerged in the XVIII century by the hand of the mathematicians Thomas Bayes and Pierre Simon Laplace and was used by Gregor Mendel to demonstrate his theory on genetic inheritance. Since the 90s with the appearance of large genomic studies, statistics has become a fundamental tool for the analysis and interpretation of biomedical data. "Today it is difficult to find a scientific article in the field of biomedicine that does not include statistical methodology" explains David Rossell, who performed ...
1 in 10 6- to 8-year-olds has sleep-disordered breathing
2012-12-14
Approximately ten per cent of 6 year olds have sleep-disordered breathing, according to a recent Finnish study. The risk is increased among children with enlarged tonsils, crossbite and convex facial profile. Unlike in adults, excess body fat is not associated with sleep-disordered breathing in this age group. The study was part of the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) Study led by the Institute of Biomedicine at the University of Eastern Finland. The results were published in European Journal of Pediatrics.
The symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing ...
Schizophrenia linked to social inequality
2012-12-14
Higher rates of schizophrenia in urban areas can be attributed to increased deprivation, increased population density and an increase in inequality within a neighbourhood, new research reveals. The research, led by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London, was published today in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin.
Dr James Kirkbride, lead author of the study from the University of Cambridge, said: "Although we already know that schizophrenia tends to be elevated in more urban communities, it was unclear why. Our research suggests ...
NHS consultant contract fails to increase productivity
2012-12-14
An employment contract for NHS consultants introduced in 2003 and including a 27 per cent pay rise over three years failed to increase productivity. The findings emerge from a 10-year study of hospital consultant activity, published today by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, which looked at the levels of consultant clinical activity rates between 1999 and 2009. The researchers found that, despite an expectation by the Department of Health that the contract would result in year-on-year productivity gains of 1.5%, consultant activity levels showed a downward trend. ...
LAST 30 PRESS RELEASES:
Self-assembling cerebral blood vessels: A breakthrough in Alzheimer’s treatment
Adverse childhood experiences in firstborns associated with poor mental health of siblings
Montana State scientists publish new research on ancient life found in Yellowstone hot springs
Generative AI bias poses risk to democratic values
Study examines how African farmers are adapting to mountain climate change
Exposure to air pollution associated with more hospital admissions for lower respiratory infections
Microscopy approach offers new way to study cancer therapeutics at single-cell level
How flooding soybeans in early reproductive stages impacts yield, seed composition
Gene therapy may be “one shot stop” for rare bone disease
Protection for small-scale producers and the environment?
Researchers solve a fluid mechanics mystery
New grant funds first-of-its-kind gene therapy to treat aggressive brain cancer
HHS external communications pause prevents critical updates on current public health threats
New ACP guideline on migraine prevention shows no clinically important advantages for newer, expensive medications
Revolutionary lubricant prevents friction at high temperatures
Do women talk more than men? It might depend on their age
The right kind of fusion neutrons
The cost of preventing extinction of Australia’s priority species
JMIR Publications announces new CEO
NCSA awards 17 students Fiddler Innovation Fellowships
How prenatal alcohol exposure affects behavior into adulthood
Does the neuron know the electrode is there?
Vilcek Foundation celebrates immigrant scientists with $250,000 in prizes
Age and sex differences in efficacy of treatments for type 2 diabetes
Octopuses have some of the oldest known sex chromosomes
High-yield rice breed emits up to 70% less methane
Long COVID prevalence and associated activity limitation in US children
Intersection of race and rurality with health care–associated infections and subsequent outcomes
Risk of attempted and completed suicide in persons diagnosed with headache
Adolescent smartphone use during school hours
[Press-News.org] Authentic Cuba Travel Announces Its Roster of Cuba Tours for 2013With about 40 escorted tours to the Caribbean island announced for 2013, Authentic Cuba Travel has one of the best compilations of escorted Cuba Tours available today to North American travelers.