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Cuba 2011 winter season bookings lowest since 1998

    For an economy increasingly reliant on tourism as its only real source of income, numbers leaked this week from MINTUR (Cuba´s tourism ministry) do not bode well for the winter season. Consumers in Cuba´s single largest market, Canada, appear to have learnt from Cuba´s “panicked “price slashing of late October 2010 and are […]

Cubans turn backs on self employment…Raul ups remittance requests to 1000´s

  After a frenzied government hyped rush to become self employed the interest is waning and many Cubans have returned the coveted licenses which cost between 10 and 30 CUC (10-30$) per month to maintain.   Recent visitors to Havana claim that things have reverted back to normal in the dusty streets of the city […]

Cuba Travel Restrictions | where have you gone?

  In January the Obama administration made sweeping changes to the Cuba Travel Restrictions along with a drastic change in the remittance allowances and who can send them to Cuba. These changes are now being to filtered down into the general population and Cuba is seeing bumper numbers of Americans visiting Cuba this year, some […]

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