Cuba’s Tourism Industry Is Completely Unraveling - WSJ

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Robert P. Walzer

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Tourists rode in a classic American car during a March visit to Havana. Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images

Tourism was booming when Sarah Foda began working at Caribbean Tours’ operations in Cuba a decade ago, with 84 employees shepherding thousands of foreign visitors each month to the island’s faded Spanish-colonial cities and turquoise beaches.

With the Trump administration intensifying its squeeze on Cuba’s communist regime, the Swiss-owned company’s visitor numbers have plunged to about a dozen travelers a month. Caribbean Tours still employs 22 people on a reduced payroll to keep them afloat until the business can snap back—if it ever does.

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