Cuba Travel FAQs: Travel Is Easier But Tourism Is Still Restricted

The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama today announced that effective tomorrow, restrictions on travel by U.S. citizens to Cuba that have remained in place for over five decades would be drastically eased. The current limits on travel by U.S. citizens to Cuba and what they can do once they get there, as well as restrictions on U.S. businesses that want to do business in Cuba, are regulated by both the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Behavior by travelers is largely regulated by the Department of the Treasury's Cuban Assets Control Regulations which were enacted on July 8, 1963, under the Trading With the Enemy Act. The actions today do not completely open Cuba to travel from U.S. nationals, they just remove some of the red tape and pave the way for bigger changes later. People are still not legally allowed to travel to Cuba if they don't fall into one of