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Authorized Cuba Travel Service Provider |
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Tico Travel is an authorized Travel Service Provider (TSP) to Cuba by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury (license C-46986). It is important that anyone wishing to book flights, hotels or tours understand the current restrictions.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury Department administers Cuba travel restrictions that apply to every US resident. But there are exceptions for some US residents to travel to Cuba legally. They are: Official government travelers, Journalists, Persons visiting relatives, Full time professionals conducting research, Full time professionals attending certain international conferences and Persons who have received a specific license.
For an overview on the current situation please see Cuba Travel. Tico Travel is able provide flights hotels and general travel request for you to Cuba both easily and hassle free. However, we provide assistance with flights, hotels, tours and general travel information to Cuba only for licensed U.S. travelers. We cannot provide any other Cuba travel service, advice or information regarding Cuba if you do not have a license.
Do you qualify to travel to Cuba under a specific or a general license? |
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Only persons whose travel falls under certain categories may be authorized to travel to Cuba. This authorization is called a General License if no application to OFAC is necessary, or a Specific License when OFAC must authorize your travel to Cuba. Please see Cuba Travel Regulations for more detail on these types of licenses.
Are you visitng family in Cuba?
OFAC has recenlty eased cuba travel and flight restrictions on visitor related transactions to Cuba to allow visits to "close relatives" in Havana, Vardadero or wherever they may be located for those who are nationals of Cuba by issuing a general license.
Travelers may travel to Cuba to visit "close relatives" (including, for example, aunts, uncles, cousins, and second cousins) who are nationals of Cuba.
- There is no limit on the duration of a visit to Cuba for these who travel to see "close relatives."
- There is no limit on the frequency of visits to Cuba for these "close relatives."
- Travelers to Cuba may be accompanied by persons who share a common dwelling as a family with them.
Authorized expenditure limits for travel within Cuba have been increased to match the expenditures allowed for all other authorized categories of travel to Cuba -- specifically, the current State Department "per diem rate" for Havana (for use anywhere in Cuba) plus amounts for additional transactions directly incident to visiting close relatives in Cuba. The current "maximum per diem rate" is $179. For future updates to this rate, travelers to Cuba may check the Department of State's Office of Allowances web site: http://aoprals.state.gov/
Are you able travel to Cuba under a specific license?
Fill out the Cuba Travel and Information Form for further details on flights and travel to Cuba |
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