Everyone Wants to Go to Cuba Now. Too Bad for the Rest of the Caribbean
Everyone Wants to Go to Cuba Now. Too Bad for the Rest of the Caribbean
There's a lot of romanticism around traveling to Cuba now but there would still be an interest in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and other destinations, suggests AS/COA’s Alana Tummino.
Buzz is building about the United States and Cuba rebuilding relations. No one seems more excited than American travelers.
Cuba has been the "forbidden fruit" for U.S. tourism over the last 50 years and Americans are giddy to see their southern neighbor. But should Americans' hunger for Havana concern other Caribbean countries?
Tourism is a key industry for many Caribbean nations, creating jobs and bringing billions of U.S. dollars to a relatively poor region. Now some of those dollars will head to Cuba....
A flood of US tourists to Cuba could flow over to other countries.
"There's a lot of romanticism around traveling to Cuba right now," says Alana Tummino, policy director at the Council of the Americas. However: "there's still going to be a lot of interest in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and all these other destinations...."
