Tourism in Cuba Still Looks Toward US

Filed in archive Latin Travel on October 3, 2009

Tourism is Cuba's number one economic sector - without American tourists. They hope to oneday tap into the American market. And many Americans would like to go...

In recent months Cuba's tourism industry has uped the ante a little, catering more and more toward luxury travel, according to USA Today.

At the rooftop pool of Havana's Hotel Saratoga, where rates run $200 and up and two-story suites have humidors and marble bathrooms, young Brits order mojitos. On the street below, near crumbling apartment buildings of Old Havana, a boy peers through the hotel restaurant's window and stretches a hand toward patrons nibbling delicacies unavailable to the average rice-and-beans-eating Cuban, miming hunger.

Americans manage to make to Cuba. They depart from Mexico or Canada and manage to keep Cuba's immigration authorities from stamping their US passports. Many wonder when travel to Cuba will become legal.

The USA Today article give a vivid image of what the country offers.


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