As President Trump outlined a stricter policy toward Cuba on Friday, travel industry representatives scrambled to decode new prohibitions and reassure clients that the island was not off limits.

The company's seven-day tour features accommodations in casas particulares (private homes) with private room and bathroom. Most meals are in paladares (in-home restaurants).

Minister Bartlett said that he firmly believed that the new goal can only be realized through an establish agenda, one that includes all the linkages to empower the tourism experience.

“This is 150 thousand more than in the same period of 2016, a 1.8 percent increase,” said Dionisio D'Aguilar, Chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization at a press conference at the Wyndham New Yorker during Caribbean Week festivities in New York.

President Donald Trump will travel to Miami next Friday to announce his administration’s changes to U.S.-Cuba policy, a source with knowledge of the president’s plans told the Miami Herald.

After an uncharacteristically weak performance in 2016, the number of Canadians travelling to the Caribbean has bounced back in 2017 to post the highest growth rate of 4.8 percent in the first quarter.