US EditionTourism in Cuba plummets as tensions with US increase and Venezuela oil shipments drop
Visitor numbers fell from 4.8 million in 2018 to 2.3 million in 2025, causing nearly $8 billion in lost revenue amid sanctions and service cuts, officials said.
- Government statistics show U.S. sanctions stripped Cuba of nearly $8 billion in revenue from March 2024 to February 2025, while some 2.3 million tourists visited Cuba from January to November 2025.
- For decades, tourism boomed but the COVID-19 pandemic, severe blackouts, and cuts in water and power, combined with Venezuela’s lost support, worsened shortages and demand.
- Vendors report loading 150 bags daily now about 50, and tour drivers lowered fares from $50 to $25 or $20, on the ground, sellers and drivers describe.
- Household incomes face pressure as tourism revenue up to $3 billion a year is undercut, with Rosbel Figueredo Ricardo and Reymundo Aldama fearing job losses if fuel runs out.
- Some vendors now target visa-seekers at the Spanish embassy while tourists taking quick selfies move on, and observers worried about contagion of decline say it 'could soon happen in Russia'.
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It is almost noon in Havana when a handful of tourists come down from a small yellow bus and run to a row of shiny classic cars, with their cameras in hand, facing a Cuba that will face a catastrophe without the oil shipments from Mexico and Venezuela.Near there, under the shadow of a beach almond tree, a group of drivers quickly stand up, some waiting for their first customer of the day.But tourists take a couple of quick selfies in front of th…
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Tourism in Cuba plummets as tensions with US increase and Venezuela oil shipments drop
Tourism in Cuba is plummeting at a time when the island desperately needs that revenue. For almost two decades, a steady trickle of visitors led to a boom in tourism, only for the pandemic and severe blackouts to hit, coupled with a radical increase in U.S. sanctions.
The tourism crisis in Cuba has worsened in recent years and has a direct impact on those who depend on this industry. The number of visitors has declined dramatically: between January and November 2025, 2.3 million tourists came, compared with 4.8 million in 2018 and 4.2 million in 2019. [...] The post crisis in Cuba: Tourism revenues break a first appeared on latinapress news.
Tourism in Cuba collapses at a time when the island desperately needs that income.HAVANA January 27, 2026--It's almost noon in Havana when a handful of tourists get off a small yellow bus and run towards a hile...
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