Licensed Cuba Travel Providers

Authorized Tour Companies for U.S. People to People Travel to Cuba

By Robert Curley

Updated 05/30/17

The Obama administration has loosened the ban on travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens to allow most Americans to visit the largest Caribbean nation for so-called "people-to-people" tours. If you want to legally visit the land of Castro, Hemingway, salsa, and cigars, here are the companies that can get you there now. (Note: Companies that actually run tours are listed first, followed by charter firms authorized to fly U.S. citizens into Cuba.)

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    Insight Cuba

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    Insight Cuba offers nine specialty tours of Cuba to U.S. travelers, including
    • Cuban Music & Art Experience (9 days, 8 nights)
    • Havana & Colonial Trinidad (8 days, 7 nights)
    • Havana & Scenic Pinar del Rio (8 days, 7 nights)
    • Bay of Pigs (8 days, 7 nights)
    • Havana Jazz Experience (8 days, 7 nights)
    • A three-night Weekend In Havana
    • Marabana Havana Marathon (Nov. 15-19, 2012)
    • Havana International Jazz Festival (Dec. 19-23, 2012)
    • Havana Biennial Art Exhibition (May 20-25, 2012)
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    National Geographic Expeditions

    National Geographic's 10-day "Cuba: Discovering Its People and Culture tour will take in Havana, the Bay of Pigs, Trinidad, Cienfuegos, and more.
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    National Trust for Historic Preservation

    Members of the Trust can visit Cuba May 12-17, 2012 for a tour focusing on "Havana’s Past & Present: An Architectural & Cultural Exploration." Future tours also are planned.
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    Friendly Planet

    Friendly Planet offers two people-to-people tours: the 8-day Colors of Cuba itinerary (Havana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Sanata Clara, an authentic Rumba block party, Ernest Hemingway's Finca Vigia, and a dinner in a "paladar") and the five-day Discover Havana tour (Havana, Callejon de Hamel, Las Terrazas, Ernest Hemingway's Finca Vigia, and an authentic Rumba block party).
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    Smithsonian Journeys

    Smithsonian Journeys will run four tours of Cuba in 2012. The Discover Cuba: Its People and Culture tours will visit Old Havana, Matanzas, and Santa Clara.
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    Cuba Education Tours

    Offers weekly trips to Cuba for people-to-people exchanges, including a Cuba Education and Culture Tour, Discover Cuban Culture Tour, Cuban Music Workshop and Island Culture Tour, Havana Arts Biennial Dream Tour, and more.
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    Common Ground Education and Travel Services

    Common Ground launched a variety of people-to-people tours in 2012, including:
    • Life in Revolutionary Cuba
    • African Roots of Cuba
    • Cuba Today
    • Cuba por Dentro: Un programa dirigido al mundo latino de los Estados Unidos
    • Art & Artists of Cuba
    • Afro-Cuban Women Today: In Their Own Voices
    • Cuba: History, Land & People
    • Along the Path of the Revolution: From Santiago to Havana
    • Spiritual Life in Cuba: Santeria, Christianity and Judaism
    • Architectural Heritage as a Living Force in Cuban Life
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    World Travel Cuba

    Offers Cuba travel services to educational groups, schools, professional groups and individuals with specific licenses to travel to Cuba. Does not run people-to-people tours.
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    American Tours International

    Offers Cuba travel services to educational groups, schools, professional groups and individuals with specific licenses to travel to Cuba. Does not run people-to-people tours.
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    Cuba Travel Services

    Offers Cuba travel services to educational groups, schools, professional groups and individuals with specific licenses to travel to Cuba. Does not run people-to-people tours.
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    Distant Horizons

    Offers Cuba travel services to educational groups, schools, professional groups and individuals with specific licenses to travel to Cuba. Does not run people-to-people tours.
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    Global Exchange

    Offers Cuba travel services to educational groups, schools, professional groups and individuals with specific licenses to travel to Cuba. Does not run people-to-people tours.
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    Holbrook Travel

    Offers Cuba travel services to educational groups, schools, professional groups and individuals with specific licenses to travel to Cuba. Does not run people-to-people tours.
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    Island Travel and Tours

    Offers Cuba travel services to educational groups, schools, professional groups and individuals with specific licenses to travel to Cuba. Does not run people-to-people tours.
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    Destination Cuba (Tico Travel)

    Offers Cuba travel services to educational groups, schools, professional groups and individuals with specific licenses to travel to Cuba. Does not run people-to-people tours.
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    Marazul

    Offers Cuba travel services to educational groups, schools, professional groups and individuals with specific licenses to travel to Cuba. Does not run people-to-people tours.
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    Academic Travel Abroad

    Offers Cuba travel services to educational groups, and schools with specific licenses to travel to Cuba. Does not run people-to-people tours.
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    Airline Brokers Company

    Authorized Cuba air charter company.
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    C&T Charters

    Authorized Cuba air charter company.
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    ABC Charters

    Authorized Cuba air charter company.
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    CTS Charters

    Authorized Cuba air charter company.
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    Xael Charters Inc.

    Authorized Cuba air charter company.

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