The foreigners visiting Havana used to be Canadians and Europeans on cheap beach package tours and left-leaning Americans on dutiful rounds of organic farms and neighborhood health clinics. Ten months after the U.S. and Cuba declared the end of a half-century of official hostility, the mood in Havana has changed.

Cruise tourism generated $3.16 billion in direct expenditures, 75,050 jobs and $976 million in employee wages among participating destinations during the 2014/2015 cruise year and the 23.6 million passengers disembarking ships and visiting the destinations.

Cuba and the United States advanced toward restoring scheduled airline service during two days of talks that concluded in Havana on Tuesday, with the potential to reach a deal this year, a U.S. official said.

If you are aching for a vacation of sunbathing and banana daiquiris in Cuba, you may not have to wait too much longer. Meetings are scheduled this week between U.S. and Cuban officials to reopen regular commercial flights between the two nations, according to the White House.

Imagine mile after mile of pristine coastline while you lounge on the deck of a three-mast, motorized sailing schooner. No high rise hotels. No fancy beaches. Just the unspoiled coastline between Cuba's colonial southern coast cities and then continuing on around the western end of the island.

Beyoncé and Jay Z caused major chaos two years back with an anniversary vacation down to Cuba. Faultfinders (okay, haters) complained that the pop power couple’s trip was illegal, a violation of the longstanding U.S. embargo against the Caribbean island. Well, that was 2013.