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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...charm-for-foreign-tourism-firms-idUSKBN1IC1X9
HAVANA (Reuters) - New U.S. travel restrictions and a destructive hurricane season last year sucked some air from Cuba’s tourism boom but foreign businesses from Spain’s Melia Hotels (MEL.MC) to China’s Jin Jiang are pursuing new investments in what remains a promising frontier.
According to sources with knowledge of industry figures, tourist arrivals in the first three months of the year fell to roughly 1.4 million compared with 1.5 million in the same period of 2017.
Of that figure, 177,000 people arrived by sea and spent relatively little money onshore, an increase of 38,000 from the previous year, as foreign cruise lines stepped up their visits.
The downward trend continued in April, the sources said, the tail end of the November-to-May high season in Cuba.
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People will always want to visit this once forbidden country that's only 90 miles from Key West.
HAVANA (Reuters) - New U.S. travel restrictions and a destructive hurricane season last year sucked some air from Cuba’s tourism boom but foreign businesses from Spain’s Melia Hotels (MEL.MC) to China’s Jin Jiang are pursuing new investments in what remains a promising frontier.
According to sources with knowledge of industry figures, tourist arrivals in the first three months of the year fell to roughly 1.4 million compared with 1.5 million in the same period of 2017.
Of that figure, 177,000 people arrived by sea and spent relatively little money onshore, an increase of 38,000 from the previous year, as foreign cruise lines stepped up their visits.
The downward trend continued in April, the sources said, the tail end of the November-to-May high season in Cuba.
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People will always want to visit this once forbidden country that's only 90 miles from Key West.