• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 05 / 26 / 2011

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American travel specialists are meeting with their Cuban counterparts in preparation for what they hope will be the day when Americans can travel freely to the communist country.

The meeting is taking place in Cancun Mexico.

Last year President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on the visits of Cuban Americans to Cuba and increasing people to people contact.

Since then they have traveled in such numbers that Cuba has had to remodel the airport terminal for American flights.

The immediate beneficiaries are the eight US-based charter services who operate the only flights allowed from the United States.

They say that business is booming.

The charter company says direct flights by Cuban Americans to their homeland rocketed by 70% in 2009 and are expected to jump by more than a third this year. Cuban officials recently said that about 250,000 Cuban exiles visited the island from the US last year, that's up from an estimated 170,000 the year before when many found a way around the old restrictions by traveling through third countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Source: http://rjrnewsonline.com/american-and-cuban-travel-specialists-meet