Luxury tour operator Abercrombie & Kent has added a Cuba land-cruise package and an expedition cruise to Japan, Hong Kong and the Ryukyu Islands.
MSC Cruises has announced that it will be homeporting a second ship in Havana from the winter 2016-17 season in light of rising demand.
In a survey Travel Agent conducted last month, 49 percent of all front-line travel agents and agency owners reported increased Caribbean cruise sales.
Carnival wants to bring at least seven of its cruise lines to the island and has asked for thousands of port calls, he said.
The number was buoyed in large part by the debut of Carnival’s $85 million Amber Cove port project in Puerto Plata, which has seen an average of 5,000 cruise visitors arriving weekly to the area.
The first U.S. cruise ship in nearly 40 years crossed the Florida Straits from Miami and docked in Havana Harbor on Monday.