U.S. Travelers Can Still Travel Legally to Cuba — But Confusion Over Trump Policies Is Keeping Them Away
Photo Credit: A street in Havana, Cuba. Flickr / Pedro Szekely
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President Trump hasn't scrapped legal U.S. travel to Cuba entirely, but the drip drip of policies making it seem more difficult or complex will mean some travelers stay away. One travel company wants to make it easier.
It's still legal for American citizens to travel to Cuba. Understanding just how to do so, however, has become increasingly complicated since the Trump administration began tightening restrictions on travel and trade with the country in 2017.
The most recent of these restrictions came in late October, when Trump banned U.S. carriers from flying into Cuban airports other than Havana. As Skift reported previously, the move is largely a symbolic one that came in response to Cuba's support for Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. However, it still results in just the sort of headlines which cause confusion for U.S. travelers mulling a trip to Cuba. That's a problem that tour company InsightCuba is trying to address with a new promotional campaign.
InsightCuba is a nearly 20-year-old company that has been on the vanguard of providing legal travel to Cuba for Americans even before Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro began improving re
