HAVANA — Raul Castro’s government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans yesterday, ending a ban despised across the island as “tourist apartheid” and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state.

Cuba has made a series of crowd-pleasing announcements in the past few days. Cubans with enough cash will be able to buy computers, DVD players, and plasma televisions starting today, and soon they’ll even be able to have their own cell phones — consumer goods only companies and foreigners were previously permitted to buy.

But the latest surprise, allowing ordinary citizens into luxury hotels and resort beaches long reserved for rich foreigners, is a particularly symbolic victory for Cuba’s everyman.

“I was born here and live here. I believe, as a Cuban, I have the right to it all,” Elizabeth Quintana, a Havana resident, said. “It’s good. Really good.”