All-Encompassing Cuba Travel Warning Issued by Trump Administration
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The U.S. travel warning might have been limited to visiting hotels in Cuba, where U.S. embassy employees have allegedly been targeted. But instead the Trump administration would prefer to close the door on all U.S. citizen travel to Cuba. As Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson said at the Skift Global Forum, U.S. policy toward Cuba has accomplished nothing over the last few decades.
The U.S. State Department issued a categorical travel warning about Cuba: Americans shouldn't visit.
"The Department of State warns U.S. citizens not to travel to Cuba," the warning begins. [See the full text of the travel warning for Cuba below.]
Published news articles earlier Friday indicated that a warning would be tied to U.S. embassy employees in Havana reportedly being subjected to attacks of an unspecified nature in Cuban hotels and at diplomatic facilities.
But the actual warning issued today says isn't limited to hotels but cautions U.S. citizens to avoid the island altogether. This will be a blow, in particular, to cruise lines and U.S. airlines that have upped their itineraries on the island since the Obama administration opened things up.
The warning also announced that nonemergency U.S. Embassy employees and their families will be leaving Cuba.
The reaction from the travel industry in the immediate aftermath of the warning Friday was diverse. {See commen
