Cuba travel ban might be lifted
Posted on April 3rd, 2009 – 5:41 PMBy Elizabeth Larsen
Although you’d never know it from the officials in the State Department, the big news this week in the travel world is that a bipartisan group of senators has predicted that Congress is ready to pass legislation to allow Americans to travel to Cuba. That hasn’t been legal since 1959, when the United States imposed a trade embargo after Fidel Castro took power of the Caribbean Island. Should the sanctions be lifted, D.C.-based economic consultants The Brattle Group estimates that almost 3 million Americans will visit Cuba a year.
Kerri Westenberg has globe-trotted for National Geographic and other magazines. Now she zips around the region, on the lookout for travel news you can use.
Elizabeth Larsen lived in Salzburg, Austria, and has traveled throughout Europe and the Americas. She can say "diaper," "bottle" and "crib" in four languages.
Troy Melhus has heli-skied on glaciers, dived alongside Monk seals and raced for 24 hours on a mountain bike. All this, and he rarely spends more than $500 on a trip.
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