Cubans will be allowed to travel abroad as tourists for the first time in more than 50 years, Raul Castro's regime has announced, without providing any concrete details of the plans.

"Study a policy that allows Cubans living in the country to travel abroad as tourists," read one of the bullet-points on a government document listing 313 reforms approved at a rare Communist Party Congress mid-April.

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

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