Tag: Cubans
Travel to Cuba becoming more difficult: Center for Responsible Travel responds
Chief Assignment Editor- June 4, 2019 23:00Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced new restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba, eliminating the people-to-people travel category that allowed organized group ... Read More
What do new Cuba travel restrictions mean to US travelers?
Chief Assignment Editor- April 25, 2019 15:45On Wednesday, April 17, the Trump administration announced that it would be issuing new rules about non-family travel to Cuba. For those who have already planned such a trip - ... Read More
U.S. Visa for Cubans: Cuban tourists face harsh restrictions
Juergen T Steinmetz- March 16, 2019 05:34The U.S. Embassy in Cuba posted a bomb-shell message on their website today, punishing Cuban citizen and the travel and tourism trade between Cuba and the United States. The message ... Read More
eTN interview with Cuban Tourism Office Councilor: Major plans for island’s tourism revival
Mario Masciullo - eTN Italy- February 18, 2019 18:30Launched in November 2018, Cuba's celebration of the 500th anniversary of the founding of San Cristobal de la Habana will end in November 2019. Its busy calendar includes art, culture, ... Read More
Four foreign tourists killed, dozens injured in Cuba bus crash
Chief Assignment Editor- January 12, 2019 02:08Tour bus carrying 40 passengers, including 22 foreign tourists from Argentina, Canada, Spain, the United States, France, the Netherlands and Mexico, overturned near Guantanamo in eastern Cuba, killing seven people ... Read More
Cubans no longer need exit permit to travel abroad
editor- January 14, 2013 09:45HAVANA, Cuba - Mileidy Ramayo hasn't seen her father since he left Cuba on a raft but is hoping the loosening of travel restrictions might help bring that reunion closer ... Read More
Will ordinary Cubans benefit from American tourism?
editor- December 3, 2009 07:15HAVANA, Cuba — The small-time entrepreneurs who rent out private rooms to tourists in this country may be the future business leaders of a post-Castro economy, but for now they ... Read More
Cuban “tourists” flock to Cuba’s resorts
editor- August 10, 2009 08:09Cuba's President Raul Castro put an end last year to the country's so-called tourism apartheid that banned ordinary Cubans from staying at tourist hotels. Read More
Cuba opens tourist hotels to citizens
editor- April 1, 2008 02:33HAVANA, Cuba - Cuba will allow its citizens to stay in hotels previously reserved for foreigners, the latest in a series of decisions to lift bans on goods and services ... Read More