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Luxury Kempinski Hotel Opens in Havana to Accomodate Huge Influx of US Tourists

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What is being billed as Cuba's first true luxury hotel has opened in Havana, with local officials inaugurating the Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski on Wednesday. Representatives from the Swiss-based Kempinski Hotels group and the Cuban government gathered at the site for a ribbon cutting ceremony, officially opening the island's most luxurious hotel in decades. Located in a renovated 1920's shopping mall in Old Havana, the five-star property is run by Kempinski but formally owned by the Cuban government.

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