What President Biden Needs to Do to Rebuild the Travel Industry: U.S. Travel Association Recommendations
Photo Credit: The U.S. Travel Association's new policy recommendations for the Biden administration focus on rebuilding the nation's tourism industry through infrastructure and technology investments as well as supporting Brand USA. Adobe / Margaret
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The U.S. Travel Association just shared its new policy recommendations for a faster tourism recovery: invest in infrastructure and air travel technology, support Brand USA, and avoid imposing travel bans, quarantines, and domestic air travel testing. Ball is in your court, White House, and Congress.
Setting an optimistic tone for the year ahead, the U.S. Travel Association — exactly one week following President Biden's inauguration — shared its long-term policy platform (PDF) and recommendations for the Biden administration on rebuilding the nation's tourism industry.
The measures that the travel trade group propose to revive tourism — which it presented at its 2021 State of the Travel Industry, calling it "travel's next chapter" — fall under five principal pillars: economic recovery, infrastructure and mobility, global competitiveness, reimagining air travel and improving travel facilitation.
The most important recommended steps include, among others:
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