Travelocity Fined $183,000 for Selling Cuba Trips
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 08.16.07 | 1:19 PM ET
In what’s believed to be the first penalty of its kind for an online travel provider, Travelocity has been fined nearly $183,000 for booking nearly 1,400 trip to Cuba between 1998 and 2004, violating the U.S.-Cuba trade embargo. Travelocity officials say the bookings were the result of a technical glitch and that the company never intended to sell the trips. “Travelocity’s penalty comes amid conflicts over foreign arms of U.S. firms selling trips into the popular Caribbean vacation spot,” the Miami Herald reports. “And it touches on the complications of isolating a country commercially amid an increasingly global and digital economy.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
