Where thousands of people disembarked from cruise ships on a daily basis, the port now lies empty. “Without doubt, when the cruise ships were here, it was much better,” she said. “But it wasn’t just the tourists in the cruise ships, independent travellers also came,” she said, and now there are fewer of them as well. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cubans await the arrival of a cruise ship bringing tourists to Havana in 2017. Last April the US rolled back its “‘people-to-people” educational travel permits and prohibited cruise ships from calling into the island.

Source: The Guardian December 21, 2019 21:00 UTC