Tourist Boom Continues in Cuba.

(Dive Travel Business News - January 27, 2012) -- Fueled by the Arab Spring, changes in US policy and economic reforms, Cuba is enjoying one of the best tourist seasons ever.  Last year Cuba had it's best year ever with 2.7 million visitors but observers are predicting that this year should beat that number.  The political stability and lack of crime in tightly controlled Cuba are strong lures for visitors. Clean Cuban beaches are also an attraction.

This high season has also seen a resurgence in visitors from Europe. Cuba has attracted many Europeans who would have gone to North Africa but balked because of the "Arab Spring" uprisings, tourism officials say.

Cuban Americans have been flooding into Cuba since U.S. President Barack Obama lifted restrictions for them to travel to their homeland in 2009. But now the number of other American visitors is climbing after Obama changed regulations in 2011, making it easier for non-Cuban Americans to enter a country the US trade embargo made off-limits for the past 50 years.

Travel experts say there is continued growth in the number of visitors from Canada, by far the biggest market for Cuba. There are also rising numbers from countries such as Russia and Argentina.

Accroding to a Reuters news article beach resorts and hotels in Havana City are totally full, and even in the interior of the country there is difficulty finding a room.   Cuba’s new problem is a lack of infrastructure  --  particularly first-rate hotels  --  as well as food shortages to meet rising tourism demand.

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