Special to Hotel-Online: Takeaway’s from Georgetown University’s Hotel and Lodging Legal Summit on American Hotel Investment in Cuba

Roland Leiser | November 9, 2016

by Roland Leiser A Canadian consultant on Cuba has sought to dispel the notion that investors would encounter official corruption in their negotiations to open hotels. Gregory Biniowsky, an attorney and political science professor at the University of Havana, addressed the 5th annual Georgetown University Hotel and Lodging Legal Summit in Washington, DC Oct. 28. His firm, Gowling WLG, is based in Toronto, but he lives in Havana. "The last thing I want to be is a Cuba cheerleader," but the country is rated "as one of the least corrupt in Latin America" along with Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica. Cuba's strict code of conduct prohibits an o...