article_snippet: A tourist gets out of a classic American car in Havana, Cuba.
article_snippet: Already this year, more foreigners are roaming the cobblestoned streets of Havana.
article_snippet: Cuba saw a 16 percent increase in visitors in January compared with a year earlier, a total of about 371,000.
article_snippet: Tourism, a $2.6 billion-plus industry, is one of the main engines that has kept Cuba's economy sputtering along.
article_snippet: Last year, Cuba welcomed 3 million visitors, a record.
article_snippet: About 600,000 U.S. travelers are estimated to visit Cuba each year, most of About 600,000 U.S. travelers Cuban-Americans visiting family but also tens of thousands coming on approved cultural, religious and educational exchanges.
article_snippet: Cuban officials estimate that 1.5 million Americans would travel here annually if all restrictions were removed, supplanting Canada as the No. 1 source of tourism and potentially adding some $2 billion a year to state coffers.
article_snippet: Tourists pose for a photo while sipping on a cocktail at the Bodeguita del Medio Bar frequented by the late American novelist Ernest Hemingway, in Old Havana, Cuba .
article_snippet: Already this year, more foreigners are roaming Cuba's cobble stoned streets.
article_snippet: Cuba saw a 16 percent increase in visitors in January compared with a year earlier .
article_snippet: Tourists cross traffic lights in Havana, Cuba.
article_snippet: Pedestrians walk along the Malecon as a cruise ship passes by in the harbor of Havana, Cuba.
highlights_snippet: Cuba had record 3million visitors last year, though only 600,000 Americans .