Newspaper reports indicate Miguel Bruguera , vice minister of tourism for Cuba seeks to intensively promote Cuba as a family and couples holiday island, to get away from an image of prostitution and sex tourism. Miguel Bruguera recently explained that tourism to Cuba has grown at an average rate of 17 percent per year since 1990, with foreign exchange generated in 1995 expected to be over US$1,000 million. He said there are some 24,000 hotel rooms in Cuba, and that the nation hopes to have 50,000 by the year 2,000, when they expect around 2 million tourists. The minister said that of the 750,000 tourists that visited in 1995, some 125,000 were from Canada, more than 100,000 from Italy and 82,000 from Spain. Other principal sources of tourism for Cuba are Germany, with 50,000, France and Argentina with 30,000, Mexico with 28,000, and the United Kingdom and Chile with 13,000. He said that 1995 was not a better year because of the image created by the “boat people” in the summer of 1994 resulting in many cancellations by groups and individual travellers.