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Cuba's reliance on tourism is a somewhat humbling turn for the revolution, which has long prided itself on producing topflight doctors and teachers--not concierges. But the island state had few other options once it lost its huge Soviet subsidies in 1990. Since then, it has built a $2 billion-a-year tourism industry that accounts for 41% of the country's hard-currency reserves. The annual tally of visitors has quintupled in the past decade, to 1.9 million. The island, roughly the size of Florida, has 11 international airports. With its appeal to mambo-era nostalgia...
John and Fidel Castro too are betting that the customs hassles and permits required for travel to Cuba will become a thing of the past, perhaps as early as 2005, a change Cuban tourism officials believe will bring more than 1 million U.S. turistas to the island each year. This confidence is based on the burgeoning bipartisan support Congress has shown this fall for lifting altogether the ban on travel to Cuba. The Bush Administration has been able to stall that effort for now--and as of Jan. 1 will outlaw exchange tours like John's in order to tighten...
What effect would millions of visitors from the citadel of capitalism have on a communist state of 11 million people? Those in Congress who want to dump the travel ban argue that exposing Cubans more to Americans would promote change on the island. Oswaldo Paya, Cuba's leading dissident, finds that view naive. "I'm all for the right of Americans to travel here," he says, "but please don't think Cuba will be democratized by people coming to dance salsa and smoke cigars...
...FRANCE ILE CHANTEMESLE Who'd have thought you could rent an island just 40 minutes from downtown Paris? With a maximum capacity of 12, the guest house is surrounded by orchards and parks. There's also a tennis court, swimming pool and two small motorboats to whiz you around the Seine. A week's stay will set you back...
...SEYCHELLES COUSINE ISLAND Home to five of the Seychelles' bird species, the entire island is a nature reserve. The four French-colonial villas, surrounded by tropical vegetation, have stunning sea views. There are only eight guests at any time on Cousine, and for a week's stay they...