HAVANA -- (EFE) -- By year's end, about 1.62 million tourists will have visited
 Cuba in 1999, generating 15 percent more income than last year, Tourism
 Ministry officials reported.

 That official estimate falls just short of the previously set goal of 1.7 million. Next
 year's goal is two million, officials say.

 Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Britain, Argentina and Mexico are the
 countries that send most tourists to Cuba. Tourism is the government's principal
 source of foreign exchange. Last year tourists spent approximately $1.7 billion in
 Cuba.