Articles tagged “cuba travel”

Tour Operators

U.S. Tour Operators Proceed Carefully on Cuba Trips With Eye on 2024 Elections

U.S. tour operators may not have long to take advantage of the eased travel restrictions to Cuba. So they're not wasting time during their preparations because legally taking travelers to the island is very complicated.

Rashaad Jorden | 8 months ago

U.S. Tour Operators Proceed Carefully on Cuba Trips With Eye on 2024 Elections

Short-Term Rentals

Airbnb Settles Cuba Sanctions Issue With U.S. Treasury Department

Airbnb got caught up in the U.S. government's six-decade-long sanctions against Americans traveling to Cuba. The settlement amount was tiny, less than $100,000, and the Treasury Department characterized Airbnb's actions as non-egregious.

Kanishka Singh, Reuters | 1 year ago

Airbnb Settles Cuba Sanctions Issue With U.S. Treasury Department

Tourism

Cuba Wonders If Biden Will Loosen Rules on U.S. Leisure Travel to Cuba

The Trump Administration banned most Americans from making leisure trips to the Caribbean island. Travel companies such as Carnival will watch whether the Biden Administration reverts to Obama-era policies. Some policy experts predict change will come slowly.

Nelson Acosta, Sarah Marsh, Reuters | 2 years ago

Cuba Wonders If Biden Will Loosen Rules on U.S. Leisure Travel to Cuba

Hotels

Marriott Says Trump Administration Demanded It to Shutter Cuba Hotel Operations

Marriott's planned Cuban expansion may become a sacrificial byproduct of the Trump administration's quest to appeal to Cuban-American Florida voters in the 2020 presidential campaign.

Sarah Marsh, Reuters | 3 years ago

Marriott Says Trump Administration Demanded It to Shutter Cuba Hotel Operations

Tourism

U.S. Travel to Cuba Faces Tighter Restrictions on Non-Family Visits

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.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

U.S. Travel to Cuba Faces Tighter Restrictions on Non-Family Visits

Tourism

Travel Brands React to New U.S. Travel Warning for Cuba

It's hard to see how other airlines, hotels and cruise lines don't follow JetBlue's lead in issuing waivers on change fees and cancellations for itineraries to Cuba given the U.S. government's ill-conceived warning for travel to the Caribbean island. The warning looks like it will help reverse the Obama administration's loosening of restrictions on U.S. citizen travel to Cuba.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Travel Brands React to New U.S. Travel Warning for Cuba

Tourism

All-Encompassing Cuba Travel Warning Issued by Trump Administration

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.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

All-Encompassing Cuba Travel Warning Issued by Trump Administration