
{"id":200507,"date":"2019-06-12T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T00:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=200507"},"modified":"2019-06-12T20:31:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T00:31:56","slug":"from-the-embrace-to-the-ax-travel-from-u-s-to-cuba-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/from-the-embrace-to-the-ax-travel-from-u-s-to-cuba-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"From the embrace to the ax: travel from U.S. to Cuba (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/from-the-embrace-to-the-ax-travel-from-u-s-to-cuba-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the embrace to the ax: travel from U.S. to Cuba (I)<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting from the line set in the Presidential Memorandum on National Security, signed in Miami by President Trump on June 16, 2017\u2015which among other issues deals with that of the Cuban military\u2015, on June 5, 2019 the ax fell on people-to-people travel, cruise ships, yachts, sailboats and private aircraft. According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/resource-center\/sanctions\/Programs\/Documents\/cuba_fact_sheet_20190604.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">press release<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba continues to play a destabilizing role in the Western Hemisphere, providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua by fomenting instability, undermining the rule of law, and suppressing democratic processes. This Administration has made a strategic decision to reverse the loosening of sanctions and other restrictions on the Cuban regime. These actions will help to keep U.S. dollars out of the hands of Cuban military, intelligence, and security services. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By placing the military and security services as if they were loose electrons, the fact that they contribute to the State the income obtained in the tourist facilities they manage remains in parenthesis. Exactly the same as is done by the hotel chains beyond their control. If the aim is to deprive the Cuban government of those dollars, the new action does not prohibit American travelers from staying in other facilities that are also state-owned. To put it graphically and with only one example: they are prevented from staying at the Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinsky, a Gaviota joint venture with a Swiss chain, but not in hotels that belong to Gran Caribe, Isla Azul, Palmares or other enterprises not managed by the military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was ratified three days after the announcement. Responding to numerous questions and concerns, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubatrade.org\/blog\/2019\/6\/8\/ofac-clarified-support-for-the-cuban-people-travel-category-visitors-may-use-hotels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OFAC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> announced that persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States could stay &#8220;in an unrestricted hotel and\/or a private residence when visiting Cuba using the &#8216;Support for the Cuban people&#8217; in the category of authorized trips.&#8221; The note says:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Assuming that the person traveling to Cuba is doing so in accordance with all of the various requirements of the general license found in section 515.574 (Support for the Cuban People) of the CACR, the terms of this general license do not prohibit travelers from staying in hotels, so long as the traveler\u2019s stay in a hotel does not involve any transactions prohibited by 515.209 of the CACR. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, the decision of June 5 also pursues the &#8220;prosperity of the Cubans and the independence of the government,&#8221; but already by canceling the self-certification, the face-to-face\u2015which happened for the first time in November 2017\u2015, there was inevitable damage to the private sector, which tries to survive and prosper against Tyrians and Trojans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As will be recalled, then OFAC had established the obligation to form part of a group experience under the supervision of &#8220;a group employee, consultant or agent,&#8221; who had to &#8220;accompany each group to ensure that each traveler kept a full program of educational exchange activities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That affected private travel, based on a feature\/value of American culture: the role of individuals making their own decisions, as well as the freedom to choose. Booking rooms through Airbnb via Internet offered multiple options for different incomes; clients went directly from the airport to the private home selected by them, without any mediation. On Airbnb, Cuba came to rank as the fastest growing market, the no. 9 most popular destination, before destinations such as Australia, Germany, Holland and Thailand: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/6\/16\/15822112\/trump-cuba-policy-travel-airbnb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">70,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> monthly guests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researcher <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/es-us.noticias.yahoo.com\/cuba-cifras-muestran-da-os-privados-por-pol-041826952.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jos\u00e9 Luis Perell\u00f3<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> estimated that the occupation rate of private homes was 90% in 2016 and that it decreased in the two subsequent years. Overnight stays decreased 9% in 2018, to which was added a drop in the average stay of Americans. Until 2017 they stayed, on average, six days in the country; afterwards, only three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June 2017 a group of Cuban entrepreneurs addressed a letter to the Departments of State, of the Treasury and of Commerce in which they reminded them that &#8220;most Cuban entrepreneurs consider that relations between the United States and Cuba are positive for their businesses, and many developed their business model under this premise.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to estimates, during the second half of 2017, private homes were receiving about 31% of the dollars that entered the country through tourism, between B&amp;B and paladares, tours and other linked services. In places like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/opinion\/columnas\/desde-washington\/trump-anticapitalista\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vi\u00f1ales<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or Trinidad this is very remarkable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The measure also had a negative incidence on that network of services for tourists, including renting those old convertibles in which Americans usually tour Havana and with which they take pictures. A taxi driver said: &#8220;In the last two years, we have had a lot of business with American travelers. The impact is huge for me. I have to pay in dollars [CUCs] for these spare parts. If I have less income&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As to the cruises, in general during the last years the arrival of visitors by this means had been exhibiting important growths. In 2013, 9,380 cruise passengers arrived in Cuba; five years later, the figure rose to 877,000 in round numbers\u2015that is, a growth of 43% over the previous year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, 23 cruise lines made 706 stopovers in nine Cuban destinations; of them, 304 in Havana, 145 in Cienfuegos and 104 in Santiago de Cuba, the main cruise ports in the country, as reflected in the following table:<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>2013<\/td>\n<td>2014<\/td>\n<td>2015<\/td>\n<td>2016<\/td>\n<td>2017<\/td>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Turistas en cruceros<\/td>\n<td>9.380<\/td>\n<td>19.303<\/td>\n<td>28.983<\/td>\n<td>220.0<\/td>\n<td>613.8<\/td>\n<td>877.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Escalas<\/td>\n<td>82<\/td>\n<td>139<\/td>\n<td>174<\/td>\n<td>291<\/td>\n<td>706<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tourists on cruises \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a09,380 19,303 28,983 220 613.8 877.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stopovers<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a082 139 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0174 291 706<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source: Jos\u00e9 Luis Perell\u00f3: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/horizontecubano.law.columbia.edu\/content\/el-turismo-en-cuba-cambios-y-tendencias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cEl turismo en Cuba: cambios y tendencias\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cruise passengers from the United States were growing at a fast rate. This variant of access to the island was becoming the most popular before it was shut down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to official figures, in 2018 Cuba received 4.7 million tourists, of which 800,000 arrived on cruises from the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between January 1 and April 30 of this year (2019), 142,721 cruise passengers arrived from the United States, an increase of more than 300% over the same period the previous year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/from-the-embrace-to-the-ax-travel-from-u-s-to-cuba-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the embrace to the ax: travel from U.S. to Cuba (I)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be continued\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read From the embrace to the ax: travel from U.S. to Cuba (I) Starting from the line set in the Presidential Memorandum on National Security, signed in Miami by President Trump on June 16, 2017\u2015which among other issues deals with that of the Cuban military\u2015, on June 5, 2019 the ax fell on people-to-people travel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3462,"featured_media":200508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13944],"tags":[18344,14891,4651],"ppma_author":[33935,18535],"class_list":["post-200507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba-usa","tag-american-tourism-in-cuba","tag-cuba-usa-relations","tag-u-s-travel-to-cuba"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From the embrace to the ax: travel from U.S. to Cuba (II) | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cruise passengers from the United States were growing at a fast rate. 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