FILE PHOTO: Passengers of a JetBlue airplane, the first commercial scheduled flight between the United States and Cuba in more than 50 years, carry U.S. and Cuban national flags after it landed at the Abel Santamaria International Airport in Santa Clara, Cuba, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini/File Photo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's rollback on his predecessor's liberalisation of travel to Cuba will all but eliminate a burgeoning market for independent tourism, forcing would-be visitors into organised trips, experts said.
That policy change could be bad news for airlines that have been helped by demand from solo travellers and families who have booked seats for ad-hoc informal "cultural exchanges" that had passed muster under former President Barack Obama's loosened rules.
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