Kailey Krantz | Staff Writer I thought I couldn’t be more disappointed in FIU than I am now, but the termination of one of our school’s biggest international tourism programs hits close to home. It was announced by an FIU official that the university is working to terminate student programs in China, which include the […]
Alexander Luzula | Asst. News Director Cultural erasure, violence and sex trafficking were all topics of discussion during Vacation Violence, a virtual panel hosted by the Office of Social Justice and Inclusion. The June 8 event focused on the negative impacts of tourism on local populations throughout the world, emphasizing what tourists can do to […]
By Fabian Osorio / Staff Writer The current pandemic has already started to have a major impact on the state’s largest industry, tourism. Florida receives millions of international tourists and the Port of Miami is, for many, the beginning of tropical vacation experience, but tourism and travel make it easier for the novel coronavirus to […]
By: Patricia Menendez/Staff Writer Although President Donald Trump promised to reverse all of former President Barack Obama’s policies with Cuba, he only made a few changes and most of the legal structure Obama had formed. Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute at FIU, said that Trump did not restrict remittances to Cuba, […]
By: Imogen Francis/Staff Writer In November 2017, President Trump announced a new policy that restricted American citizens to travel to Cuba. The Trump Administration released a list of hotels, restaurants and shops, which had ties to the Cuban military, that U.S. citizens are no longer permitted to visit. In a White House press briefing, […]
