Global Affairs Canada posted a travel advisory for the island, urging visitors to ‘exercise a high degree of caution in Cuba due to shortages of basic necessities including food, medicine and fuel’
Some Canadian tourists are reconsidering vacations in Cuba as the Caribbean island continues to cope with power outages and shortages of basic necessities., after the island’s largest power plant shut down and fuel shortages sent the system into disarray, leaving 10 million people without electricity.
Serge Malaison, chair of the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies , Quebec section, an industry group, said the crisis has affected business. Helen Pike, a retiree from St. John’s, is staying at a Varadero resort, in the western part of Cuba. “Things aren’t too, too bad,” she said in an interview Tuesday. The air conditioning and the ATMs are out, and the internet is spotty, Ms. Pike said, but “everything else is relatively good.”
Romanna Kachmarsky, director of Bucket List Travelers, a Toronto-based travel agency, said she also saw cancellations but the impact on tourists already there has been marginal. Ms. Kachmarsky said that otherwise, it’s “business as usual” regarding reservations. “I’m booking Varadero right now, actually,” she said Tuesday. “A golf tournament for guys. They’re assuming it’s not going to last long.”
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