Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong>Airbnb & Expedia Leave Cuba | How Sanctions Destroyed Cuban Tourism</strong></p><p>[A <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> on <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/PeerTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeerTube</span></a> about <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a> from the video collective <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/BellyOfTheBeast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellyOfTheBeast</span></a>]</p><p>Countless <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Cuban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cuban</span></a> families once relied on <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tourism</span></a> for their livelihoods. Not long after <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a>’s opening with <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a> in 2014, Cuba was welcoming over 4 million visitors per year. That number has been cut in half.</p><p>Cuban B&B’s (or casas particulares, as they’re known in Cuba) sustain communities, create local jobs, and offer travelers an authentic cultural experience. But the business has been decimated by US <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sanctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sanctions</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s sanctions banned cruise ships, restricted flights, and placed Cuba back on the US ”State sponsors of terrorism” blacklist, changing everything. <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Airbnb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Airbnb</span></a> stopped paying Cuban hosts without international accounts, and <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Expedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Expedia</span></a> was forced to halt its operations.</p><p><a href="https://cuddly.tube/w/fRGQXnWS8c5MgJWH4urmam" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cuddly.tube/w/fRGQXnWS8c5MgJWH</span><span class="invisible">4urmam</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/LetCubaLive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetCubaLive</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/CubaSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CubaSolidarity</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/EndSanctionsAgainstCuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndSanctionsAgainstCuba</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/OffTheList" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OffTheList</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/BedAndBreakfast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BedAndBreakfast</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/c/cuba" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cuba</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cubainfo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cubainfo</span></a></span></p>