It’s simple: demand for Cuba travel is booming. And while there are still just 12 categories of licensed categories for Americans to travel to the island, those who make the journey need help. That’s where people like Peggy Goldman come in. Goldman is the founder and president of Friendly Planet Travel, that’s quickly becoming one of the top Cuba travel bookers. Cuba Journal sat down with Peggy Goldman.

Johanness Bornemisza is the Marketing Director with E & J Gallo Winery for Latin America and the Caribbean, a company based in California that’s currently selling its products to 90 different markets around the world, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Julio Paez Pumar is the Director of Projects of International Logistics, a company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that deals with comprehensive solutions  for turnkey healthcare infrastructure. He sat down with Caribbean News Digital in the course of FIHAV 2015 in Havana and talked about his expectations within the new thaw between Cuba and the U.S.

American already flies to Cuba and has been flying there from the U.S. since 1991, although only through charters on American Airlines planes. It flies an average of 22 charter flights a week to the island from Miami and Tampa. Its planes will be used in the launch of another charter flight from Los Angeles before the year is over.

The Fathom brand is Carnival’s newest brand concentrating on “social impact” cruises. If it gets the Cuban OK, it would become the first U.S.-based cruise ship operator to sail to the island since the trade embargo was put in place. Plans call for it to sail from Miami to Cuba every other week beginning in May.

Willanny Darias Martinez is a talented young pianist who got her big stage break in her native Cuba at an age when most girls dream of becoming princesses and go to bed with fairytales. She studied piano all the way from elementary education to high school, winning a bevy of awards in both national and international contests along the way.