Trump’s Cuba Crackdown Brings Surprising Windfall to Cruise Lines
Cubans watch as the first US-to-Cuba cruise ship to arrive in the island nation in decades glides into the port of Havana, on May 2, 2016.
Photographer: Adalberto Roque/AFP via Getty Images
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In the months after Donald Trump was elected, cruise lines fretted that the new president would kill their nascent business to Cuba.
Barack Obama had eased travel restrictions to the communist country, and Trump was now vowing to reverse the move -- something that would jeopardize a promising growth opportunity for the industry.