Wyndham’s RCI Division to Sell Cuba Travel Packages

Wyndham Worldwide’s RCI division said Monday that this summer it will become the first timeshare-exchange company to sell Cuba travel packages.

RCI, through a partnership with travel agency Cuba Travel Services, will coordinate charter flights to Havana from Miami, lodging in Havana and Varadero, and meals and educational activities.

The two itineraries will include visits to Revolution Square and local sugar-cane fields, and tours of sites such as Ernest Hemingway’s former home that was turned into the museum Finca Vigia and a studio tour of Cuban artist Jose Rodriguez Fuster.

RCI will offer the packages to its Platinum-level members in the U.S. RCI joins a growing list of U.S.-based companies that have added travel services and products in Cuba since the Obama administration in March began allowing solo travel to the island.

Most notably, Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Marriott International in late March were approved by the U.S. Treasury Department to operate hotels in Cuba, clearing the way for the first U.S. hospitality operations in the country in almost 60 years.

Source: Travel Weekly