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Sat 12 Dec 2009US travel industry eyes up Cuba as Congress debates lifting ban
TRENDS:THE US TRAVEL industry is gearing up for a return to what was its largest Caribbean destination before Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution. Tour operators held a video conference with Cuban tourism officials in Havana on Wednesday and asked them if they were ready for the “rush” of Americans if the US ban on travel to Cuba is lifted as proposed by legislation currently before the US Congress.
It may be too soon for Americans to plan a Cuban vacation of beach, mambo and mojitos but they are apparently eager to visit: “Americans really want to see Cuba,” said Robert Whitley, president of the US Tour Operators Association, which with the US National Tour Association handles 75 per cent of all American package tour business to the Caribbean.
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