Cuba’s tourism sector the nation’s main source of foreign currency revenue after remittances is battling its deepest economic crisis since the Cold War. However, in Havana the Minister of Tourism Juan Carlos García Granda maintains a defiant optimism insisting the industry is “alive and kicking.” Despite official figures and anecdotal evidence suggesting a dramatic decline in visitor numbers, the government continues to rely on and heavily invest in tourism as the country’s economic locomotive.The minister points squarely at the United States economic war for preventing Cuban tourism from returning to pre pandemic levels. He highlights the impact of 263 US measures implemented since 2017 a majority of which were designed to damag
