article_snippet: It may expand access to the Internet and the outside world, creating engagement that could bring brighter economic days and, practically speaking, make it easier to fix a leaky roof. '
article_snippet: We're very excited,' said Yadiel Carmenate, a 26-year-old English major at the University of Matanzas who moonlights as a tour guide.
article_snippet: InsightCuba, the tour operator based in New Rochelle, New York, is adding excursions as its monthly bookings explode compared with early 2014. '
article_snippet: An untold number of others have, for years, skirted travel restrictions by journeying through third countries such as the Bahamas or Mexico.
article_snippet: that's very good,' he said. '
article_snippet: Privately run B&Bs and diners that have mushroomed under President Raul Castro's economic reforms could help ease the load on the government's 64,000 hotel rooms and bland, poorly stocked restaurants.