After a Pandemic Implosion, Tourism Returns to Cuba

In the real Havana, as opposed to the restored and polished Habana Vieja, people are struggling more than at any other point since the 1959 revolution.

Scott Norvell/The New York Sun
Tourists hire photographers to document their excursions in Havana's famous fleet of 1950s American cars. Scott Norvell/The New York Sun

HAVANA — After disappearing entirely during the Covid pandemic, tourists are slowly beginning to refill the 16th-century colonial quarter of this time capsule of a city.

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