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Export Ban Drives Cuba To Non-US Analytics Software To Boost Tourism

Posted by timothy on from the keepin'-it-hostile dept.

dkatana writes with some crucial lines from an article at InformationWeek: Currently Cuba receives around 2.8 million visitors every year, half of them from Canada. Mintur, the Cuban Tourist Ministry, estimates that if Americans were free to travel to Cuba today, the number of visitors would increase by two million the first year. Last year the Cuban government was interested in getting its hands on analytics software to process the data generated by visitors on social networks. ... Because of the existing ban on American companies supplying technology to Cuba, Havana had to look somewhere else and found SocialVane, a small Spanish company on the island of Menorca, which has been working with the local tourist sector to analyze issues, trends, and potentials of the tourism industry.

3 of 84 comments (clear)

  1. Cold war is over by danbob999 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Time to end that ridiculous embargo.

  2. "Someone can't buy thing, has to buy other thing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    STUFF THAT MATTERS!

  3. Re:And Cuba will be fucked ... by rubycodez · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nonsense.

    influx of money means the "system" of which you speak will grow.

    plenty of other third world countries prove the point