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This is why American tourists don’t want to travel to Cuba
Market Watch ^ | By Kari Paul Published: May 3, 2017 6:39 a.m. ET | By Kari Paul Published: May 3, 2017 6:39 a.m. ET

Posted on 05/04/2017 4:45:32 AM PDT by cll

Edited on 05/04/2017 4:54:23 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

A flash of excitement about travel to Cuba after the country opened its borders to the U.S. in 2016 for the first time in decades may have lost some of its shine.

Americans are less interested in travel to Cuba this year than they were in 2016, a survey from insurance provider Allianz Global Assistance found. Some 76% of the 1,514 respondents said they were not likely to plan a trip to Cuba in 2017 compared to 70% in 2016. Only 2% of those surveyed planned to visit Cuba in the next six months or by the end of 2017, the same as 2016 despite a projected increase in travelers from the country

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba
KEYWORDS: puertorico; tourism
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To: Flag_This

I know a woman who just got back from a visit to Cuba. She is a minister, and went for a “women in the ministry” conference. She said that she had never seen so much complete poverty in her whole life. The building where she was staying had running water, and they offered access to the water to the neighbors. She also mentioned how you can’t flush your toilet paper there. She said that the sewers, plumbing, and infrastructure were generally non-functional. Crumbling building, Crumbling roads. No incentive for people to fix anything. Also, there is a drought, so few crops and more starvation.


21 posted on 05/04/2017 5:43:04 AM PDT by toothfairy86
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To: cll

I have spoken with 2 Canadians who went there. They were not impressed.

One said a local man approached him on the beach, said he was starving and begged him to get him some food from the hotel buffet.


22 posted on 05/04/2017 5:48:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: pepsionice

The allure of Cuba was mainly from leftists romanticizing socialismus...


23 posted on 05/04/2017 5:57:25 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: NonValueAdded; Bartholomew Roberts; Lazamataz; All

That’s what Cuba needs! A boatload of Freepers to go there and set them straight on a few things


24 posted on 05/04/2017 6:03:49 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: Flag_This

I just want to go largemouth bass fishing there before I die. Right now I’ve been told, there is an eight month wait for a travel permit.


25 posted on 05/04/2017 6:07:16 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Yes, what you said. I have liberal relatives who went there, due to 0bama was promoting visits to Cuba.


26 posted on 05/04/2017 6:09:44 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

I know some people like that, and their other motivation is travel snobbery, being able to work the latest greatest destination into a conversation later. Even if the truth on the ground is not quite so glamorous.


27 posted on 05/04/2017 6:11:10 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: cll

Every tourist dollar spent in Cuba goes directly to the Castro regime.


28 posted on 05/04/2017 6:14:54 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: GnuThere

“””their other motivation is travel snobbery,”””


You must know my brother-in-law.

My BIL has not traveled outside of the USA in more than 20 years until he spent two weeks in Cuba during December 2016.

Oh yeah, did I mention he is a leftist!!!!!


29 posted on 05/04/2017 6:26:31 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: cll

30 posted on 05/04/2017 6:33:14 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: cll

Christian Cubans are hungry for Bibles. I’m going to work on getting my church to send them some.


31 posted on 05/04/2017 7:00:28 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: cll

They legalised it so, it’s no longer interesting...


32 posted on 05/04/2017 7:14:05 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: cll
Fifty years after the USA became an independent nation, we were an up and coming economic powerhouse using Adam Smith's economic principals.

Fifty years after the Castro took power they still can't make their communist "La Rev-o-l-o-o-cion" work.


33 posted on 05/04/2017 7:31:02 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
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To: toothfairy86

“She said that she had never seen so much complete poverty in her whole life.”

There are many people in real poverty who would thing those conditions are akin to Paradise ...


34 posted on 05/04/2017 3:56:35 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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