Tourism in Cuba
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The Tourist Information Centers (INFOTUR) provide official and free information about Cuba in several languages. They can help you before, during and after your trip to the destination.
DViajeros – A Convenient Solution for Entry to Cuba
DViajeros is an official digital platform developed by Cuban authorities to streamline the entry process for international travelers. Designed to reduce paperwork, waiting times, and ensure a smoother border control experience, DViajeros provides an electronic pre-arrival form where visitors can submit personal, health, and travel-related details before arriving in Cuba. The platform supports travelers entering by air or sea, making the entry process efficient and safe.
### Key Features of DViajeros:
1. **User-Friendly Interface**: The app and online platform guide users step-by-step to complete required information, ensuring accuracy and compliance with Cuban entry requirements.
2. **Accessibility**: The platform can be accessed via a mobile app or website, allowing travelers flexibility in completing the form from any device.
3. **Streamlined Entry Process**: By pre-submitting information, travelers reduce the amount of time spent at immigration counters.
4. **Enhanced Security and Health Protocols**: DViajeros also serves as a health declaration, ensuring that authorities are notified in advance of any health risks.
### Required Information for DViajeros Entry Form
To successfully complete the DViajeros entry form, travelers must provide:
1. **Personal Information**:
– Full name (as on passport)
– Nationality
– Passport number and expiration date
– Date of birth
– Gender
2. **Travel Information**:
– Flight or vessel details, including airline and flight number (or vessel name)
– Expected date and time of arrival in Cuba
– Intended length of stay in Cuba
– Address in Cuba (hotel or residence)
3. **Health and Safety Information**:
– Recent travel history (other countries visited within the last 15 days)
– Declaration of any symptoms experienced within the past two weeks (fever, cough, respiratory issues, etc.)
– Confirmation of COVID-19 vaccination status, if applicable
– Health insurance details, as health coverage is required for entry
4. **Contact Information**:
– Email address
– Phone number
### How to Use DViajeros:
1. **Access the Platform**: Download the DViajeros app from the App Store or Google Play or visit the official website.
2. **Register and Fill Out the Form**: Create an account, enter the necessary details, and submit the form at least 72 hours before arrival.
3. **Receive Confirmation**: After submitting, travelers will receive a QR code or confirmation number, which should be saved on their phone or printed.
4. **Show Upon Arrival**: Present the QR code or confirmation number to immigration authorities upon arrival in Cuba.
By completing these steps on DViajeros, travelers ensure they meet entry requirements quickly and efficiently.
Regulations for traveling to Cuba.
Find out here the regulations for traveling to Cuba and the necessary documentation. Now easier with the digital form https://www.dviajeros.mitrans.gob.cu, after completing it you will receive a QR code that you will have to show at the entrance to the country.
The requirements to travel to Cuba are:
Valid passport.
Tourist visa.
Travel insurance with medical coverage.
Traveler’s Health Declaration.
Round-trip airline ticket.
QR code of the digital form
Passport and Visa
Find out here what you need to travel to Cuba and the types of visa according to the period of your stay and how to obtain it, as well as the modalities of visa application.
The passport must be valid for 6 months from the date of entry into the country. It must be kept until you leave the country; and in case of loss, you must go to an immigration office to obtain a duplicate upon payment of the corresponding fee.
The tourist visa is valid for a single entry to Cuba and is mandatory to enter Cuba if you do not have Cuban residency. The maximum stay in Cuba as a tourist is 90 days, extendable for 90 more days.
Chinese citizens are exempted from the visa requirement, which means that Chinese nationals will not need a visa to enter Cuba, they will be able to do so with their regular passport.
Types of visas and how to obtain them
Short-term visas: this is the general visa for tourists and allows the stay and transit through Cuba for 90 days.
Long-term visas: in case you have other reasons for your trip (business, studies…) or you want to stay in Cuba for more than 90 days, you should contact the Cuban Consulates or Embassies. Exceptions are countries with which Cuba has visa-free agreements.
How to apply for a visa
1. Internet: https://evisacuba.cu/
2. In person at the consulate
3. Through a Travel Agency
For more information you can consult the website of the Ministry of the Interior.
Benefits of the electronic tourist visa:
It is requested in any consular office, Travel Agency and through the Internet from anywhere in the world (except the United States which is purchased from that same country) through the link https://evisacuba.cu.
It eliminates the handling of a physical document in addition to the traditional travel documents.
The electronic visa service will be available 24 hours a day.
The tourist obtains the visa code and proof of payment by e-mail.
Customs
Find out here what you can and cannot import with you or in the luggage accompanying it when entering and leaving the country.
What CAN you bring into Cuba on a non-commercial basis and what are its limitations?
Personal effects, for which no customs duties will be paid.
Food, toiletries, medicines and medical supplies.
All passengers may import:
In addition to their personal effects, for which no customs duties shall be paid, passengers may import as part of their baggage, without commercial character and subject to the payment of the corresponding customs duties, new and used articles up to the limit in authorized value of one thousand (1,000) pesos. The value of the articles arriving in the country as unaccompanied baggage will be part of the maximum value allowed for that passenger. Minors, once they are ten (10) years old, have the right to import articles up to the limit of the established value. For the act of dispatch they must be assisted by an adult representing them. Minors under ten (10) years of age may only bring with them their personal effects, according to their age.
They are exempted from payment of duties:
Up to 10 kilograms of medicines.
Elaborated pharmaceutical products; wheelchairs for invalids; scientific, technical, art and literature books; musical scores; records, magnetic tapes, fixed views and cinematographic films for teaching purposes; prostheses, when they replace or substitute an organ or part of it; and equipment, books or materials for the blind;
Disposable butts for adults;
used personal objects brought by passengers in general and Cuban crew members of ships and aircraft and workers at sea;
Household goods and personal effects of persons arriving in Cuba for the purpose of permanent residence, in accordance with the provisions of the legislation in force;
products for the personal use of foreign scholarship holders residing in Cuba and materials necessary for their studies, as long as they maintain that condition; they may also import one (1) computer with its peripheral elements, only once during the period of their stay in the national territory;
Medals, decorations and awards granted abroad, and the products that Cuban citizens receive as gifts or awards for their status as scientists, athletes, artists and others, as long as their origin is proven with the corresponding document.
Products brought as temporary imports by foreigners as artists, athletes, specialists, scientists, journalists and filmmakers, passengers in transit and those persons arriving in the country under special circumstances.
The relaxations in the non-commercial importation of food, toiletries, medicines and medical supplies by natural persons applicable to unaccompanied baggage and air, sea and postal shipments are extended until September 30, 2024. During this period, there is no weight limit for these items, as long as they are separate from the rest of the baggage and are not mixed with other items that are part of the baggage.
What you can NOT bring to Cuba?
Psychotropic or hallucinogenic substances.
Precursor substances.
Explosives.
Hemoderivatives.
Drugs and narcotics.
Obscene or pornographic literature, articles and objects or that attempt against the general interests of the nation.
Air conditioners with a capacity greater than 1 ton or 12,000 BTU;
Electric stoves and ranges, except those called induction glass-ceramic cookers, of any model and that their electrical consumption does not exceed 1500 Watt, per focus;
Electric ovens, except those known as microwave ovens, and that their electrical consumption does not exceed 2000 Watt.
Electrical resistors of any type.
Light motor vehicles (cars, motorcycles and bicycles with combustion engines).
Engines and bodywork of cars and motorcycles (frames).
Animal products (cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and all species of ungulates) susceptible to be carriers of diseases.
What NOT to take with you from Cuba?
Drugs and narcotics. Psychotropic or hallucinogenic substances.
Precursor substances
Explosives
Hemoderivatives
Obscene or pornographic literature, articles and objects or those that threaten the general interests of the nation.
Cultural property declared part of the Nation’s Cultural Heritage
Handwritten books, incunabula (published between 1440 and 1500).
Books and pamphlets with library stamps of the National System of Public Libraries and Cuban Organizations and Institutions, as well as Cuban Books of “R” editions.
Foreign books, pamphlets and serial publications printed in the 16th to 18th centuries and Cuban books published in the 18th century.
Lobster, in any quantity and form of presentation.
How
Tourist information Center
Playa
Ave 5ta y 112. Miramar Tel. (53) 72047036
Aeropuerto Internacional ’’Jose Marti’ (’’Jose Marti’ international Airport)
Teléfono. (53) 76426101. Terminal 2 y 3