Time is ready today to think about investitions on the sugar island. Ten years ago, after the breakdown of the Eastern bloc in Europe, the communistic leadership opened the island for foreign tourists. Because of the absense of preference prices at oil delivery from the former Soviet Union and various barters (sugar against milk powder) the government under Fidel Castro tries to find foreign investors. These investors may help to replace foreign currency with earnings among other things from the tourism industry. Tourism has already overrun sugar export and rose to number one in making currency available. Year by year arise in the main tourism ressorts new hotels and bungalow resorts. Partly they are financed by cuban-foreign joint ventures.
At the moment the government takes not in consideration, like in eastern Europe to adjure the communism and to build up a capitalistic society. But the communistic government made in the last few years concessions indicating that they will change slowly from the communism to a democratic system:

Owning US-Dollars was legalized.
Independent farmer markets were introduced, to pass agricultural surpluses on the people.
The black market with Cuban Currency was eliminated by Cadeca-counters (Casa de cambio).
More and more shops will be closed temporarily and redevelopped to open later as a so named dollar-shop to serve the growing population of citizens in possession of Dollars.
Licences will be given away to open for example a paladar (private restaurant under family management), to drive a taxi, or to rent a room. These licences are sold in US-Dollars, but allow the holder also to make Dollars.
etc.

But this development needs its time, because nobody wants to miss the communistic achievements (eg. school and medical care for everybody). Also, the twelve millions of Cubas citizens want to live more or less comfortably.
The tourism in Cuba is at this moment in the beginning. In the tourist resorts like Varadero, Cayo Largo, or Guardalavaca, just to name a few, the all-included tourism is promoted. The government wants to protect the foreigners from the poverty of the inhabitants; and on the other hand the Cubans should perceive nothing of the richness of the tourists.
Until now, there exist only first class hotels or all-inclusive clubs in Havana, which are possible to be booked in a package including flight and transfer. These arrangements are more expensive than in other countries in the Caribbean and do not hold what they promise.
Therefore the idea to initiate a new hotel in Cojímar, a suburb of Havana. It has to meet all the requirements of European customers, but has to be also a low-priced alternative to the existing hotels. We would like to address cultural interested people, who do not only want to spend beach holidays in the Caribbean. Havana, with its more than two millions of citizens the biggest town in the Antilles and its innumerable cultural activities offers a lot more.