U.S. Travel to Cuba Faces Tighter Restrictions on Non-Family Visits
Photo Credit: Cuban-American families will likely still be able to travel to Cuba, but everyone else may be barred under promised new Trump administration policies. U.S. tour operators aren't being deterred by policy changes towards Cuba. Pictured are tourists riding in a convertible in Havana. Flickr.com / Marco Derksen
Skift Take
When the Trump administration took office in 2017, the popular wisdom was that it would eliminate U.S. travel to Cuba. The changes have turned out to be incremental, but now it appears that non-family travel to Cuba will be all but gone.
[UPDATE: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control intends to implement changes to non-family travel to Cuba "in the coming months," a Treasury Department spokesperson told Skift Thursday.
In an email, the spokesperson wrote:
"OFAC will implement Treasury-specific changes to non-family travel and other regulations via amendments to its Cuban Assets Control Regulations. OFAC expects to issue new regulatory amendments in the coming months, and will propose revisions to existing restrictions at that time."]
The unraveling of the Obama administration's opening up of U.S. citizen travel to Cuba is just about complete under a new pledge that national security advisor John Bolton made in a speech outside Miami Wednesday.
The U.S. Treasury Department will issue new restrictions
