Cuba’s popularity concerns Caribbean tourism officials, prompts them to seek US help

Cuba’s popularity concerns Caribbean tourism officials, prompts them to seek US help
Jun 24, 2015 CB Staff

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Caribbean tourism officials are pushing for a partnership with the U.S. government because of concerns that warming relations between the U.S. and Cuba will result in a significant loss of visitors to the rest of the region.

The CEO of the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association says Cuba has seen such a surge in visitors that the fragile budgets of many tourism-dependent islands will be hit hard if they don’t take action.

Frank Comito said Wednesday that the association seeks to create a Caribbean Basin Tourism Initiative to help boost investment and travel across the region with help from the U.S. government. The plan would be modeled off the Caribbean Basin Initiative, a U.S.-led program in the 1980s that sought to boost trade in the Caribbean and Central America.

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