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Marriott and Starwood May Be Close To Signing Cuba Deals

Deanna Ting

Skift Take

If you want to experience Cuba the way it's been for the past 50 years, you should think of going there now before Marriott and Starwood get there.

Marriott and Starwood want to join Airbnb and start doing business in Cuba. As reported today in The Wall Street Journal, the two hotel companies—which are expected to become one very big company by June—have applied to the appropriate government entities in Cuba and the U.S. to start operating businesses in Cuba -- and could close on deals before President Obama visits the island March 20. "We are optimistic that we are going to get a green light soon from the U.S. government to have hotels under the Marriott flag in Cuba," Thomas Marder, a Ma

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