Cuban tourism in crisis; visitors repelled by fuel, power shortages
The Peninsula
Havana: Cuba s tourism sector suffered a sharp decline in 2025, with shortages of basic goods repelling visitors even before the United States began s...
Havana: Cuba's tourism sector suffered a sharp decline in 2025, with shortages of basic goods repelling visitors even before the United States began strangling the island's fuel supply.
Around 1.8 million people visited the Caribbean island last year, down 17.8 percent from the previous year, the national statistics office ONEI said.
The government of the cash-strapped nation of 11 million people, which relies on tourism to bring in hard currency, had been hoping for 2.6 million arrivals.
The country's main tourist markets all shrank last year.
Visits by Cubans living abroad, mostly in the United States, fell 22.6 percent.
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