US Fines Travel Company
for Booking Trips to
Cuba
American online travel
company Travelocity has
been fined us$182,750 by
the US Treasury's Office
of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC) for
booking trips between
the United States and
Cuba in violation of the
trade blockade enforced
by the US government
against the island for
more than four decades.
The OFAC said the
Texas-based company,
owned by Sabre Holdings
TSG.N, violated the
blockade 1,458 times
between January 1998 and
April 2004.
In another case,
American Express Travel
Related Services Co.,
Inc. was also fined
us$16,625 after a
subsidiary in Mexico
sold travel packages to
Cuba, a popular tourist
destination in the
Caribbean, OFAC said.
Although the Bush
Administration has put
emphasis on the tourist
industry, the blockade
against Cuba also
stretches to medicines
and health technologies.
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