Travelocity Fined For Cuba Trips
August 17, 2007 | by Christopher Nickson
Online travel company Travelocity.con has been fined $182,750 for booking trips between the U.S. and Cuba in violation of a 45-year-old ban.
Travelocity.com has become the first online travel company to be hit with a fine for booking trips from the U.S. to Cuba.
The company had paid $182,750 to settle a complaint from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. Travelocity.com is said to have violated the 45-year-old prohibition on travel between the U.S. and Cuba nearly 1,500 times between January 1998 and April 2004.
It is possible to receive a license from OFAC for approved trips to and from Cuba, but Travelocity spokesman Joel Frey on Wednesday said the company had not applied for a license and had no plans to do so.
“The trips to Cuba were unintentionally permitted to be booked by consumers online because of some technical failures several years ago and it's just now being finally settled with OFAC,” Frey wrote in an e-mail. “In no way did the company intend to allow bookings for trips to Cuba and the company has fully cooperated with OFAC and implemented corrective measures.”
The Treasury did not say if the Travelocity investigation had been closed. Travelocity co-operated with the investigation.
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