Rob Sequin | Havana Journal I would like to welcome our newest advertiser to the Havana Journal, Friendly Planet Travel. Friendly Planet is wholesale tour operator specializing in high-quality, cost-effective international travel arrangements with a new focus on legal trips to Cuba. The company is one… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal National Geographic tour guide and Cuba travel expert Christopher Baker writes “It’s been a dream of mine to lead group motorcycle tours of Cuba ever since I published my travel literary memoir, Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro’s Cuba.” In March,… Read More

Brent Runyon of The Enterprise from Falmouth Massachusetts writes this article about a Falmouth Academy “people to people” trip to Cuba. As a Cape Cod resident, I think this is a great use of the new “people to people” Cuba travel regulations. A group from Falmouth Academy, a… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal Havana Journal Inc is proud to announce the release of its Cuba Trips Calendar ebook. The ebook features 379 Cuba trips from 45 different trip providers so any American can now travel to Cuba legally on one of these hosted Cuba trips. There are 96 pages of content featuring… Read More

People to People Cuba travel licenses authorize individuals to engage in travel-related transactions involving Cuba that are incident to engaging in educational exchanges not involving academic study pursuant to a degree program provided these exchanges take place under the auspices of an organization… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal Havana Ferry Partners recently went public with their OFAC denial for ferry service to Cuba. The denial letter came one-and-half years after Havana Ferry Partners filed its original application. The letter from OFAC is dated February 27 and reads “To date, only air charter… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal According to an article at the New York Daily News (and my own, first hand knowledge), the volume of Americans going to Cuba has increased sharply in 2012. Bob Guild of Marazul Charters says “We’re jammed up. Since November, we’ve probably quadrupled the number of… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal Note: This post is FULL of links out to other pages that offer more details for your information. Be prepared to click on a lot of links. You will learn more than you expect about People to People Cuba travel. OFAC has released a spreadsheet of Cuba related travel licensees… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal The US Treasury has just released a routine update of the list of Cuba Service Providers (pdf) consisting of Cuba Travel and Carrier Service Providers and Remittance Forwarders. The most notable updates were branch openings. Branch Openings Aspa Travel Inc. Common Ground Education… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal Friendly Planet Travel, which for more than 30 years has helped hundreds of thousands of travelers experience exotic locales around the globe, is announcing that it has received a people-to-people license from OFAC. The company is organizing and operating two educational trips…… Read More