Tourists sit by the swimming pool on the rooftop of the Gran Manzana Hotel in Havana. Photo: AFP
In Havana, there’s a shop selling a camera for more than US$25,000 (RM102,000) – roughly 850 times the average monthly wage in Cuba.
The eye-popping sum earned predictable scorn on social media, but it begins to make sense when seen through the lens of the island’s fledgling bid to tap into the luxury tourism market.
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