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The US administration has eased travel restrictions and opened a wide range of new export opportunities with the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eThere's a change in the air in Cuba as relations warm between the United States administration and the Cuban government. The US administration has eased travel restrictions and opened a wide range of new export opportunities with the communist island.\u003cbr/\u003eAround 100, 000 American tourists have been visiting the island each year, since 2011, on educational organised trips called 'people to people'. \u003cbr/\u003eThe winds of change are blowing in Havana. \u003cbr/\u003eU.S. tourists are roaming the streets of Old Havana, listening to lectures on Art Deco architecture and meeting with jazz musicians. \u003cbr/\u003eWhat they aren't doing yet - at least most of the time - is lounging in the sun and sipping mojitos at white-sand-beach resorts.\u003cbr/\u003eAmerican citizens have been allowed to visit Cuba on such \"people to people\" trips since 2011, one of President Barack Obama's first moves toward detente with the communist-run island - provided their scheduled activities are sufficiently educational, and down time is kept to a minimum.\u003cbr/\u003eAmerican Hannah Berkeley Cohen runs CubanRising.org, which organises cultural tours for American visitors.  \u003cbr/\u003e''I really like to stray away from the more conventional norm of bringing peoples.......I like to take more intimate groups so we can truly have a cultural interaction between Americans and Cubans'' she explains. \u003cbr/\u003eToday Berkeley Cohen is bringing American tourists Joe Flood and Jeremy Reff to her favourite Havana haunts. \u003cbr/\u003eFlood says the scheme brings them into contact to ordinary Cubans who they wouldn't normally get the chance to meet. \u003cbr/\u003e''We had the chance to hang out and meet normal folks and see things and talk to the in their own terms, in their own homes...... When you really travelling well you feel more like a guest and less like a tourist and 'People to People' has been like that\" says Flood. \u003cbr/\u003eBerkley Cohen wants to unpick the myths about Cuba for her clients. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Its much less glamorous as far as trying to unearth what we think, or what our grandparents or our parents saw Cuba as and it's more about how Cubans live in modern-day Cuba, \" she explains. \u003cbr/\u003eCuba is expected to be transformed in the near future by improving relations with the United States. \u003cbr/\u003eThe U.S. is easing the rules on visiting Cuba, and that will mean major changes for the trips, which are currently so tightly regulated that operators must submit extensive documentation to the Treasury Department, including detailed justification for all activities to prove they are sufficiently educational.\u003cbr/\u003eFor Americans who don't have family on the island or fit into one of the handful of other categories for legal visits, the trips have been the only way to visit the island.\u003cbr/\u003eGeneral tourism to Cuba is still prohibited by the half-century old trade embargo, and it would take an act of Congress to lift it.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I guess I always wanted to go to Cuba. It seems like a place that has changed a lot in recent years and will change more coming up and I wanted to see it now while I got the opportunity before those things happen.\" says Flood. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter visiting a market the trio set off to meet Yanet Vila, who is trying to move home, at her house. \u003cbr/\u003e\"You can either buy or you can trade or you can trade with money on top, so she is looking to do any one of those three options.\" Berkley Cohen explains. \u003cbr/\u003eThe tourists are welcomed into Vila's home, who is looking forward to more contact with Cuba's neighbours. \u003cbr/\u003e'I think we can do good business with the Americans, everything is going to be great '' she says.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe celebrated American writer Ernest Hemmingway's Cuba home is a must-do for any US tourist. \u003cbr/\u003eHemmingway's villa in the Havana suburbs still bears aspects of his personality, the game trophies, bookcases and a typewriter. \u003cbr/\u003eNow, such cultural exchanges are not only expected to grow dramatically, they are expected to become more flexible and less bureaucratic following January's  announcement by Cuba and the U.S. that they would work to restore normal diplomatic relations for the first time in more than 50 years.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new Treasury Department rules have not yet been released, but a White House statement suggests that educational travel to Cuba will now be covered by a \"general license,\" which means tour operators - and perhaps individuals, depending on how the regulations are written - will be able to head to Cuba and simply give the U.S. government their word that they're not engaging in ordinary tourism.\u003cbr/\u003eTravellers may simply have to sign a form and board a charter flight, making it easier and cheaper to visit the island, experts say.\u003cbr/\u003eDozens of operators offer people-to-people travel at prices that typically range from $2,000 to $6,000. \u003cbr/\u003eSome cater to specific groups such as academic and legal organisations and others are for the general public. \u003cbr/\u003eThe precise number of people who take them is unknown but experts say most of the 100,000 or so non-Cuban Americans who visit the island legally each year came by this route. \u003cbr/\u003eThat is expected to increase amid renewed interest in the country following Obama's December 17 announcement of restored relations after two decades of hostility.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eHavana, Cuba - 12 January 2015\u003cbr/\u003e1. \"El Morro\" lighthouse on Havana Bay\u003cbr/\u003e2. Traffic street, Capitol building \u003cbr/\u003e3. Vintage car with Cuban flag painted on back driving away, Capitol building on background\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eHavana, Cuba - 11 January 2015\u003cbr/\u003e4. Hannah Berkeley Cohen, founder of CubaRising.org, at computer\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close of computer screen\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hannah Berkeley Cohen, founder of CubaRising.org: (AUDIO AS INCOMING) \u003cbr/\u003e\"People in my groups will have meaningful cultural interactions with Cubans so I really like to stray away from the more conventional norm of bringing people, focusing on Old Havana or going to the same art studios. I like to take more intimate groups so we can truly have a cultural interaction between Americans and Cubans.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Joe Flood (left) Berkeley (centre, back) Jeremy Reff (right, red shirt) seen through windshield inside taxi\u003cbr/\u003e8. Flood, Reff and Berkeley touring Havana \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND: (English) Hanna Berkeley: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Behind us is 'El Capitolio', it is an exact replica of the US Capitol building, except is 5 centimetres taller. And after the renovation this is where parliament will be based.\"\u003cbr/\u003eReff: \"How long has the renovation been going on?\"\u003cbr/\u003eBerkeley: \"Very long time\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Flood and Reff walking on street amidst people\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Flood, Teacher and Writer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think when you are really travelling well you feel more like a guest, you know? And less like a tourist and 'people to people' has been like that, you know. We had the chance to hang out and meet normal folks and see things and talk to the in their own terms, in their own homes, visit people's houses and see things that are a little more, I don't know if unofficial is the right word, but seem more true to a normal experience of people's lives and that's been great.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Berkeley welcoming Flood and Redd to market\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of fruits and vegetable stalls\u003cbr/\u003e13. Berkeley giving tour to Flood and Reff, pan left to bags of vegetables, back to group\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Hannah Berkeley Cohen, founder of CubaRising.org:  (AUDIO AS INCOMING) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Its much less glamorous as far as trying to unearth what we think, or what our grandparents or our parents saw Cuba as and it's more about how Cubans live in modern-day Cuba.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. People on street\u003cbr/\u003e16. Flood, Reff and Berkeley walking past bicycle rack in Old Havana\u003cbr/\u003e17. Tourists walking on Old Havana streets\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Flood, Teacher and Writer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I guess I always wanted to go to Cuba. It seems like a place that has changed a lot in recent years and will change more coming up and I wanted to see it now while I got the opportunity before those things happen.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Tourists in \"Plaza Vieja\" square\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of  Flood, Reff and Berkeley entering house for sale\u003cbr/\u003e21. Pull in of Berkeley explaining housing market to Flood and Reff\u003cbr/\u003e UPSOUND: (English) Berkeley: \"You can either buy or you can trade or you can trade with money on top, so she is looking to do any one of those three options.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Flood, Reff and Berkeley touring house\u003cbr/\u003e23. Berkeley talking to owner\u003cbr/\u003e24. Reff taking picture\u003cbr/\u003e25. Berkley sitting on living room talking to owner of house\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Janet Vila, Owner:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's all about letting the Americans in (Cuba). I think we can do good business with them, everything is going to be great.\"\u003cbr/\u003e27. Various of tourists walking on Saint Francis of Assisi square in Havana\u003cbr/\u003e28.SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Flood, Teacher and Writer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"When you talk a little bit with normal (Cuban) folks, I don't know that is going to affect their daily lives as much. All the foreigners that are here in some kind of context, it seems their phones are ringing off the hook with people trying to find out more about and do travel and all that, but to normal people I don't think it's affected them at all yet, for them is more like wait and see.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eHavana, Cuba - 12 January 2015\u003cbr/\u003e29. Flood, Reff and Berkeley entering US writer Ernest Hemingway house and museum\u003cbr/\u003e30. 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