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Wikipedia tells all: Canada, the US, Italy, Germany, Russia, France and the UK are the top sources of tourists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Cuba

As of 2018

What does this mean? AFAICT, it's either a minor detail, hardly worth mentioning, or it implies that there have been notable changes since then. If you did intend to imply that, could you elaborate?

Canada is probably also in large part “the US” - there are no direct flights there from the US. Why we keep up this idiotic embargo is anyone’s guess.

Lots of Canada flies directly to Cuba (Halifax, Montreal, Toronto[0]). There are (or were?) some historical "can't use US airspace" rules about flights travelling there (so western Canada has to connect).

[0]: https://www.aircanada.com/en-ca/flights-from-canada-to-cuba

There’s only one direct flight and that’s from Miami with American Airlines.

You have a lot of research to do if you think the problem is the embargo.

Wasn’t aware there’s now a direct flight from Miami. I went there through Canada back in the day.

Actually there is also direct from Houston via United Airlines.

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