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Home holiday rental site Airbnb has added Cuba to its list of destinations.
More than 1,000 properties in the Caribbean nation are already listed, but can only be booked by users in the US.
The San Francisco-based site is restricted from showing the listings elsewhere because of a US trade embargo against the island.
Nevertheless, Airbnb said Cuba could eventually become one of its biggest markets in Latin America.
“We are actually plugging into an existing culture of micro-enterprise in Cuba,” said the firm’s regional director Kay Kuehne.
“The hosts in Cuba have been [renting out rooms to travellers] for decades.”
One expert, however, said the site faced major challenges
Published by BBC