Originally Posted by
MAH4546
America actually is Cuba's second largest source of tourists after Canada, and that figure only includes Americans that come legally.
Not that I doubt you but do you have any reference for that stat.? I would've thought EU visitors would've been ahead of "legal" U.S. visitors but couldn't find any really recent numbers beyond this note on U.S. State Department from a few years back:
Roughly 1.7 million tourists visited Cuba in 2001, generating about $1.85 billion in gross revenues; in 2003, the number rose to 1.9 million tourists, predominantly from Canada and the European Union (EU), generating revenue of $2.1 billion.