Cubans may be allowed to travel abroad as tourists

HAVANA - Cubans will be allowed to travel abroad as tourists for the first time in more than 50 years, the government announced on Monday.

"Study a policy that allows Cubans living in the country to travel abroad as tourists," reads one of the points on a government document listing 313 reforms approved at April's Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba.

The document gave no further details of the travel policy or a date at which it would be implemented, but it was seen as an official decision by the government to authorize foreign travel as part of a series of landmark reforms.