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Cuba Confounds the Online Travel Agents
It's a popular destination, and airlines are there. So why aren't the likes of Priceline and Expedia ready to sell?
People walk the downtown streets of Havana.
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U.S. airlines are now flying to Cuba after a half-century ban on travel there, but you wouldn’t know it from browsing any of the major travel-booking websites.
None of those behemoths—Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline, TripAdvisor, or Google Flights—offers air travel or lodging for Cuba, touted as one of the hottest new destinations thanks to more than 50 years of being off-limits to Americans.