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 I would like to welcome our newest advertiser, Cuba Select Travel. This company offers the best local prices for all your travel needs in Cuba. Cuba Select Travel is a British owned and managed tour operator based in Havana and is licensed by the Cuban Ministry of Tourism… 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

A new online Cuba travel guide has been launched by 360 VOX, a Canadian real estate development company. Formerly known as Leisure Canada, the company purchased the domain name VisitCuba.com for approximately $110,000. The company is announcing the launch of the developed website at VisitCuba.com. From… 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 Blue Diamond Hotels & Resorts, a division of Sunwing Travel Group, currently operates over 3,000 rooms in all inclusive resorts in the Caribbean and Latin America under its “Memories Beach Resorts” and “Royalton Luxury Resorts” brands. The Memories… 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