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| Above, tourists in the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The following article is certainly no surprise.
After President Trump clamped down on American tourism to Cuba back in June, tourism to the communist island nation plummeted.
I managed to take a cruise to Cuba with Royal Caribbean in April. At that time, there were rumblings that cruises to Cuba would soon be coming to an end.
The Japan Times reported:
HAVANA – Tourist arrivals to Cuba plunged 23.6 percent on the year in July, official data showed on Wednesday, confirming the blow dealt to the sector by the Trump administration’s tightening of U.S. restrictions on travel to the Caribbean island.
Data from the Statistics Office had already shown a 20 percent drop in arrivals in June, after Washington that same month banned cruises to Cuba and made it harder for U.S. citizens to get an exemption from the ban on travel there.
The sustained decline reverses a boom in arrivals and therefore the broader tourism industry in recent years following the U.S.-Cuban detente under former U.S. President Barack Obama that President Donald Trump is now unraveling.
The Trump administration has targeted two of the few bright spots in Cuba’s otherwise beleaguered economy, tourism and foreign investment, as part of its campaign to pressure the Communist government to reform and drop support for embattled leftist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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| Above, our ship, Majesty of the Seas in Havana Port. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
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