A majority of Americans support ending a ban on travel to Cuba, according to a recent poll from Orbitz and Ipsos.
In fact, more than two out of three people surveyed favor allowing all Americans to travel to Cuba.
Orbitz has launched OpenCuba.org, “which is designed to give Americans the opportunity to petition the U.S. Government to open up travel to Cuba.”
“President Obama recently took a bold step in easing travel restrictions for Cuban-Americans,” Barney Harford, president and CEO of Orbitz Worldwide, said in a news release. “The OpenCuba.org campaign calls on the President and Congress to take action to end the travel ban to Cuba, giving all Americans the freedom to visit what once was a premier tourist destination for U.S. citizens.”
The survey, according to an Orbitz news release, found that:
- 32 percent “would strongly support such a policy that would allow all Americans to travel to Cuba”
- 23 percent “say that they would oppose lifting these restrictions for Americans traveling to Cuba” and “13 percent would strongly oppose it”
- 72 percent “agree that expanding travel and tourism from the U.S. to Cuba would have a positive impact on the day-to-day lives of the Cuban people”
- 20 percent “feel that allowing Americans to travel to Cuba would not positively impact Cubans in this way”
“Our mission at Orbitz is to help travelers experience the world,” Harford said, adding that 67 percent “of Americans would also support a policy that would allow U.S. travel agents such as Orbitz to book vacation travel to Cuba.”