Alex Ritson

How that affects tourists.

Americans are not allowed to travel to Cuba as quote unquote tourists.

There are a set of licensed reasons that Americans can travel there.

Cuba's saying that international airlines won't be able to buy jet fuel and refuel when they're there.

Coming from the US, that may not matter because you probably don't need to refuel.

Coming from further away, a different story.

That's exactly right.

Literally in 15 years, I have not seen a US jet refuel before flying from landing in Havana and turning around and flying back to the US.

This makes Cuba more dependent on U.S.

tourism then.

It doesn't stop tourism.

It just means that nearly all the tourism would be from America.

Well, depending on how long this continues.

At this point, the only flights I've heard that have officially been suspended for now are flights from Canada.

And keeping in mind that, you know, it's a very different market.

It's very much a beach destination for most Canadians.

Cuba has already announced that they're preparing for this.

They know that in addition to not just because of the jet fuel situation, but lack of fuel and power supply for the entire island, they're consolidating and closing some of the beach hotels and keeping only a couple of them open.

So it may not make all that much difference by the sound of it.

Well, I think it makes a difference.