The US State Department has eased its travel advisory to Cuba.
Officials reduced it to level two status which urges taking additional precautions from the previous level three (reconsider travel).
It is hoped it will help boost visitor traffic to a country rated one of the safest in the world.
The US market hasn’t recovered since last year’s Hurricane and then the US issued a travel warning over the still unexplained mystery sonic attacks afflicting US government officials in the country.
The US government still hasn’t discovered the causes of these so-called attacks but believes they are targeted at embassy personnel and not visiting tourists.
The advisory had been described as politically motivated by analysts and tourism advocates, especially after similar illnesses were reported by diplomatic staff in China but no travel warning was issued there.
It is a timely move, coming one day after a survey by the Cuban Educational Travel agency found 83% of US travelers, currently banned from traveling to Cuba as convential tourists, consider the island ”very safe’ and just one percent regarded Cuba as insecure.
According to Reuters, US tourist arrivals to the island slumped 24% in the first half of 2018.
