The Obama administration has significantly eased travel restrictions to Cuba for individuals, allowing them to make “individual people-to-people educational” trips to the island, without having to travel with an authorized group. The change takes effect March 16. […]
In advance of President Obama’s historic trip to Havana this week, his administration made perhaps the most significant changes so far to the regulations surrounding Cuba tourism by allowing Americans to visit the island without […]
FORT LAUDERDALE — Royal Caribbean International is spending millions of dollars to upgrade the Empress of the Seas, but that effort might be more about Cuba than launching short cruises from Florida. The Empress, which launched […]
HAVANA — Cuba gave Carnival Corp. long-awaited approval for its Fathom brand to operate there, setting the stage for the first cruises between Miami and Cuba in more than 50 years. Carnival said Cuban authorities from […]
Cuba has agreed to allow passengers on Fathom cruises to Cuba who were born in Cuba to arrive by sea, a change in policy sought by Carnival Corp. The decision removes any uncertainty that Fathom’s […]
Originally constructed in 1522, the Cathedral Ecclesia fronts Santiago de Cuba’s central plaza. Photo Credit: Robert Silk Fathom’s Adonia made its third and final port call Friday as its historic voyage to Cuba began to […]
Though cruises between the U.S. and Cuba had been embargoed for more than half a century, there were exceptions, now all but forgotten. In 1977 and 1978, the Greek-registered cruise ship Daphne made several departures […]
Music in the air, salsa dancing, mojitos and, most of all, brightly colored vintage cars: I didn’t have to look for “spirit of place” here — this could only be Cuba. But now that U.S. […]
FORT LAUDERDALE — Now that the drama of the U.S. presidential election is in the rearview mirror, the cruise industry could see some additional openings to Cuba, Frank Del Rio, CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line […]
In a move that could “reinvigorate the entire Caribbean,” Cuba, after demurring for most of the year, has opened the floodgates to cruise tourism, at least for the first five months of 2017. In a […]
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