The article below promotes the New York Times new travel plans through its 'Times Journeys' programme. With this information that has been circulating for some time, it gets more evident why the NYT is campaigning so intensively for a lifting of the embargo on Cuba and for improved U.S diplomatic relations with the repressive Castro regime. Ernesto Londoño is at the moment on a visit in Cuba to get more input to this continued campaign of pro-Castro editorials, applauded by Fidel Castro himself. In Havana he has been well received and guided by official press and the censors at the Writers Union.
CDV Editor
CDV.org: This photo by an independent Cuban reporter resulted in 8 months' prison in 2014.
Here is an extract from the article in Travel Weekly.com:
Cuba, Iran among new offerings in Times Journeys program By Johanna Jainchill November 30, 2014
NEW YORK — Times Journeys, the New York Times’ travel program, has expanded its offerings to include 29 itineraries that visit 36 countries on seven continents.
New itineraries for 2015 include places identified as having “troubled pasts,” such as Cuba, Sri Lanka, Colombia and Iran.
Times Journeys launched in 2012 with primarily cruise product. Earlier this year, it expanded to include 21 land-based tours.
All Times Journeys trips include insight from New York Times experts, primarily former and current Times reporters, into the events and history that brought the destinations to worldwide attention.
The Times works with tour operators including Abercrombie & Kent, Academic Travel Abroad and Mountain Travel Sobek, to develop customized Times Journeys itineraries.
In a press conference here with several Times journalists who will be hosting 2015 trips, the reporters explained that they would be offering tour participants years of reporting experience that has given them uncommon access to people and places in these countries.
Continue Reading here: Travel Weekly.com.
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