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Car Rental in Cuba – Online Comparison winter 2010

As the Christmas season approaches many of you are looking for Car Rental in Cuba. We´ve compiled this from recommendations at Trip Advisor, Lonely Planet, Trivago, Amadeus.
Here is a short comparison of some of the Cuba Car Rental Companies who offer online reservations.
Elephant Car Hire - http://www.elephantcarhire.com
Car Rental Varadero - http://www.carrentalvaradero.com
Holiday Autos - http://www.holidayautos.com
Car [...]

The precursor of Cuba’s online Travel business goes global

From humble beginnings in France during the early nineties on the Minitel programming format, followed by several printed magazines in Europe in the late 90´s, the web development firm Digital Panorama S.A. created Cuba´s first online Gift Store along with Cuba´s first travel booking website GoCubaPlus. After later developing a whole host of websites for [...]

The US has a way to shut down Wikileaks, the infamous SDN list

 
Could the SDN list be the best censorship tool for websites?
 
You may not know what the SDN list (Specially Designated Nationals) is but we´ll explain. It’s the US version of Iran and Chinas state censorship machine. Initially created with good intent to inform the world (and US entities, persons) of Terrorists, Rogue regimes and other [...]

Autentica Cuba - Cuba´s tourism ministry launches its new campaign

 
Officially putting the “Viva Cuba” campaign to rest, the Cuba Tourist Board unveiled their new global marketing campaign “ Auténtica Cuba ”
In addition to the launch, attendees welcomed visiting Cuban vice-minister, Maria Elena Lopez, as well as introduced Cuba’s new director, Ruben Jimenez.
 
Jimenez, who will be based out of the tourist board’s Toronto office, had this [...]

Cuba Travel: The big squeeze

This year has seen the biggest exodus of Cuba dedicated travel agencies since the government allowed representation offices on the Caribbean island of foreign agencies in the early 90´s. The idea back then was to allow foreign travel companies and wholesalers to have on the ground staff to better manage inbound visitors and thus increase [...]

Cuba releases dissident just before he dies in jail

Close to death and probably to obvert further international outrage of jailed regime opposition, Cuba released Ariel Sigler Amaya, 46, who had been in prison for more than six years. “He is already home, they brought him by ambulance and carried him in on a stretcher because his health has greatly deteriorated,” his brother Juan [...]

Cuba raises stakes on car rentals for Cuban Americans

 
Local operators are suffering from a distinct lack of automatics cars. Better said, they are nonexistent. Why one would ask? Well, as of January 2010 a new rule was quietly introduced where automatic cars are only bookable through approved agencies such as Havanautos or Cuba Car
To combat this change and loss of business, local foreign [...]

Russia, the worlds largest oil producer back to Cuba for oil

Although most polls show that the American public is in favor of offshore oil drilling, the Obama administration is ready to ban it.  
Meanwhile while Obama is against the U.S. doing offshore drilling, it helped Brazil underwrite it in the Tupi oil field near Rio de Janeiro.
It also give Russian political power because it can [...]

Cuba back in the fray for real estate investments after 9 year hiatus

Cuba allowed the building of 16 developments between 1998 and 2001 which were sold as condos to foreigners. Buildings were built under a clause in the 1995 law 77 for foreign investment. It is rumored that the clause was designed to allow the building of hotels and when the then president, Fidel Castro, learned that [...]

Cash-strapped Cuba will require visitors to buy health insurance

Cash-strapped Cuba will require visitors to buy health insurance if they want to enter the country, according to a new government measure disclosed on Saturday.
Under the measure, which takes effect in May, the insurance will be sold by foreign companies approved by the Cuban government or by Cuban firms at ports of entry to the [...]

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