Airlines Forced to Cut Trips to Cuba Because Americans Don't Want to GoIn an extensive report Friday, Bloomberg noted a general dismay both among airlines and other tourism-related businesses that Cuba was not proving as popular as they expected.
Decades of communism have turned Cuba into an impoverished nation with limited luxuries and especially limited freedom of expression.
Tourists who have written of their experiences there describe it as inconvenient and sad."I also saw up close an
undercurrent of sadness I couldn't quite shake," wrote Kari Paul in Market Watch after her return. "The oppressive atmosphere was impossible to ignore when I offhandedly told people I met to visit me in New York sometime, and watched them shake their heads." Paul noted that she could not enthusiastically endorse Americans visiting the island, not just because of the sadness of the experience, but the knowledge that "the influx of tourists is causing major food shortages for locals."
The website iAfrica found international
tourists appalled at the conditions in Cuban hotels and restaurants. "You spent three hours waiting to eat. Since they were state restaurants, the staff could have cared less," French tourist Jean Orsini protested. Other tourists noted that the
four-star hotels often lacked running water.
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