{"id":1762,"date":"2011-01-17T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/obama-plan-will-ease-cuba-travel-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T07:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:31:51","slug":"obama-plan-will-ease-cuba-travel-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/obama-plan-will-ease-cuba-travel-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Plan Will Ease Cuba Travel Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Havana, Cuba (Image: Wikimedia)\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/1\/Havana_skyline.jpg\" alt=\"Havana, Cuba (Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"377\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama has announced a plan which will relax travel restrictions to Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new plan will allow church groups traveling for religious reasons and students seeking academic credit to visit the communist nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, more airports will be able to offer chartered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/cheap-flights\/cuba-cu-deals\">flight to Cuba<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Right now, only three airports in Miami, New York, and Los Angeles can offer charted flights to the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Under the Obama plan, any international airport with adequate customs and immigration facilities will be able to offer charter flights, as long as licensed travel agencies gain approval.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new changes come a year after the Obama administration eased other Cuban policies, allowing Cuban-Americans to visit family members and send money to Cuban relatives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41082792\/ns\/travel-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MSNBC <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama has announced a plan which will relax travel restrictions to Cuba. &nbsp; The new plan will allow church groups traveling for religious reasons and students seeking academic credit to visit the communist nation. &nbsp; In addition, more airports will be able to offer chartered flight to Cuba. &nbsp; Right now, only three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897724,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/98897724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}