In this July 27, 2015 photo, Cuban singer Candido Fabre sings at a carnival concert in Santiago, Cuba. Santiago's promoters lament that tourists are missing out on the city's rich Afro-Cuban culture, its meandering streets, colonial architecture and its prized role as the home of Cuban musical genres such as trova and son. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 26, 2015 photo, people return to a farm with their horses after attending a rodeo show in Santiago, Cuba. As foreign visitors flood Havana and a select group of other colonial cities and beach resorts, Cuba's second-largest city is suffering a tourist drought. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 27, 2015 photo, newlyweds pose for photos during their photo session at the fortress of the Morro in Santiago, Cuba. While Cuban cities are seeing stagnant visitor numbers, cruise ships provide a promising new potential source of visitors, although dockings remain relatively rare. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 25, 2015 photo, youth eat a cooked pig's head as they wait for the start of carnival in Santiago, Cuba. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 27, 2015 photo, a child is raised above the crowd at a concert by Cuban singer Candido Fabre during carnival celebrations in Santiago, Cuba. The city of Santiago de Cuba saw less than a tenth of the tourist traffic of Havana last year amid large-scale government investment in rehabbing the city for its 500th anniversary this summer. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 25, 2015 photo, a woman in costume prepares for the carnival parade to start in Santiago, Cuba. Low visitor numbers to Santiago are raising concerns that a rising tide of tourist dollars will leave some areas of Cuba booming and others struggling against a backgroup of broader economic stagnation. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 26, 2015 photo, images of Cuban revolutionary heroes, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, left, Fidel Castro, center, and President Raul Castro hang on a wall at a pizzeria in Santiago, Cuba. Some advocates of U.S. travel to Cuba says they are optimistic about Santiago's future, particularly since American tourists remain barred from pure tourism and must participate mostly in cultural or educational activities well-suited to historic sites like Santiago. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 25, 2015 photo, Isabel Almenares, 78, parades in costume during carnival celebrations in Santiago, Cuba. Those who do reach Santiago find a city rich with history but hampered by what visitors and residents alike call substandard accomodations, few high-quality restaurants and a lack of fun things to do at night. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 27, 2015 photo, a man walks his pig home as he passes the Virgin of Charity of Cobre church in Santiago, Cuba. The city sits 500 miles (800 kilometers) east from Havana on highways that narrow outside the capital to roads of horsecarts, bicyclists and stray cows. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 25, 2015 photo, revelers parade during carnival celebrations in Santiago, Cuba. Cuban cities are seeing stagnant visitor numbers despite the dramatic surge in overall tourism set off by the announcement of detente between the U.S. and Cuba. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 26, 2015 photo, horsemen take their horses back to a farm after a rodeo show in Santiago, Cuba. The city sits 500 miles (800 kilometers) east from Havana on highways that narrow outside the capital to roads of horsecarts, bicyclists and stray cows. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 25, 2015 photo, a reveler plays the trumpet at the start of a carnival parade in Santiago, Cuba. Along with the new oceanfront Malecon and the restoration of homes in the city's historic center, the Cuban government has built a new theater and an artisanal brewpub as part of a broader reconstruction and improvement effort that began after Hurricane Sandy devastated the city in 2012. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 27, 2015 photo, a woman sings and dances during a carnival concert in Santiago. “The city and the region have much to offer. It's just a question of time before tourism in Santiago starts growing”, said Tom Popper, head of Insight Cuba, one of the largest operators of U.S. tours to Cuba. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 26, 2015 photo, horsemen take their horses back to the farm after a rodeo show in Santiago, Cuba. The journey by road to Santiago from Havana can last 15 hours, and far longer in Cuba's notoriously unreliable and uncomfortable inter-city buses. Train and domestic plane tickets are virtually impossible to obtain without waiting hours in lines that may or may not end in satisfaction. There are only three flights a week from the U.S. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 27, 2015 photo, people attend a concert during carnival celebrations in Santiago, Cuba. Cuban officials say Santiago has roughly 1,500 of Cuba's 60,000 hotel rooms, far fewer than it needs. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 25, 2015 photo, a costumed dog parades during the carnival in Santiago, Cuba. A potential draw to this city, particularly for American tourists, is the memorial to Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, who fought on the city's San Juan Hill in one of the most famous battles of the Spanish-American War that freed Cuba from Spanish rule. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

In this July 27, 2015 photo, a man carries buckets of water to horses on the outskirts of Santiago, Cuba. Virtually every tourist establishment in the city closes at 10 p.m., leaving the streets dark and silent. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

Workers repair buildings at Reina Avenue for the visit of Pope Francis in Havana, August 10, 2015. (Photo by Enrique de la Osa/Reuters)

People play dominoes on a sidewalk in Havana, August 10, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

A banner with a picture of former Cuban President Fidel Castro is seen outside the state office in Havana, Cuba August 11, 2015. Castro celebrates his 89th birthday on August 13, 2015. (Photo by Enrique de la Osa/Reuters)

A man stands at his balcony above a Cuban flag, next to the U.S embassy building (not pictured), in Havana, Cuba August 11, 2015. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Cuba on August 14 to formally re-designate the U.S. Interests Section as the U.S. Embassy in Havana. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Tourists travelling in a vintage car takes pictures of the U.S embassy in Havana, Cuba August 11, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

A man hangs Cuban flags on a building near the U.S embassy, (not pictured) in Havana, Cuba August 11, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Evelyn Garcez, 20, smokes a cigarette at the doorstep of her home, in front of the U.S embassy in Havana, Cuba August 11, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Aylen Hernandez (C), 23, walks in downtown Havana, July 21, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Dancers Karla Enriques, 16 (R), and Yudi Gonzalez, 20, chat in downtown Havana, August 6, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Dianet Tamayo, 10, (L), poses for a photo with Carolina Fernanda Alvarez, 5, at the doorstep of her home in downtown Havana, July 21, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Psychologist Aliuska Garcia, 26, poses for a photo at the seafront Malecon in Havana, July 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

A woman who did not give her name sits with her son to watch the sunset in Havana, August 5, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Hotel worker Yaneici Rodriguez, 22, sits at the seafront Malecon in Havana, July 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Dancing teacher Yeni Acosta, 19, sits on the sidewalk as he chats on his mobile phone in downtown Havana, August 6, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Student Naomi Perez, 18, poses for a photo in downtown Havana, July 17, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Felix Yandez, 16, (C), reacts to the camera during a concert in honor of Cuba's former President Fidel Castro for his birthday at the Anti-Imperialist Stage in Havana August 12, 2015. Castro will celebrate his 89th birthday on August 13, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Yumila Figueroa, 25, (C), looks to the camera during a birthday concert in honor of Cuba's former President Fidel Castro at the Anti-Imperialist Stage in Havana August 12, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

People dance during a concert in honor of Cuba's former President Fidel Castro for his birthday at the Anti-Imperialist stage in Havana, August 12, 2015. Castro celebrates his 89th birthday on August 13, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Joshua Reyes, 3, (C), sleeps between his parents during a concert in honour of Cuba's former President Fidel Castro for his birthday at the Anti-Imperialist stage in Havana, August 12, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

People dance during a concert in honour of Cuba's former President Fidel Castro for his birthday at the Anti-Imperialist stage in Havana, August 12, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

A girls holds her mother's hand, as she walks on the Malecon sea wall, past the the US embassy in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, August 11, 2015. The embassy will hold a historic ceremony on Friday, Aug. 14 to raise the U.S. flag, to mark the reopening of the embassy on Havana’s historic waterfront. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

A bus with the Cuban and US flags is seen on a beach in Havana, on August 12, 2015. Cuba and the United States have restored full diplomatic relations last month after more than a half century of enmity. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)