Like Jamaica is just a puppet state that the US operate on behalf of its bourgeois vacationers, right?

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I did say tourist destinations. Cuba might be a great place to take a trip but it isn’t a resort country

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Cuba is a super popular tourist destination with tons of resorts. Cuba still has a huge tourism industry. I know a shit load of people who went there and stayed at resorts.

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Yeah I think it always had some tourism after the rev, but they really allowed it to increase after the fall of the USSR.

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Lost a huge trade partner and tourism was always an easy way to bring in money, makes sense.

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Used to be, before the Revolution. Castro brought it to a screeching halt, closed the casinos, freed the prostitutes and spread the wealth.

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No, it’s still a tourist destination. Just not mob run and Americans can’t go. It’s a very common vacation place for Canadians. There are plenty of resorts and some are very high luxury.

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Tourism is one of the island’s primary ways of bringing in foreign revenue and US Dollars. It’s definitely a tourist island.

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