Even Cuban Magazine Report remittances to be a major $emittances. It is estimated that U.S. tourism could grow to 4.5 million annually by 2020, up from 160,000 in 2015. Remittances from Cubans living in the US, meanwhile, rose 15% per year from 2010 through 2015, to approximately $3.3 billion; they are expected to reach $6 billion by 2018