¡Recepción a Cuba! (Welcome to Cuba)

Cuban leader Fidel Castro recent retirement which may be to improved relations with the island nation should have excited travel and tourism executives. These folks are always on the look out for new products and destinations.

Cuba is only a couple of hundred miles off the Florida coasts and offers many tropical getaway delights. Before Castro Cuba was a mini Las Vegas a resort destination that offered fun, sun, sea, sand, casino gaming and rich colonial Spanish history and heritage.

Once Cuba is open to American tourists I see it becoming a cruise line port of call first then a “stay and play” location once hotel redevelopment is completed. Familiar American hotel brands are already operating in Cuba but expect to see a major corporate investment here. The Travel Professor may even look into investing a little cash himself.