The 3 Big Asks to Restart Global Travel From U.S. Travel Leaders
Photo Credit: U.S. travel industry groups have submitted a proposed plan for reopening the country to international travelers from the European Union, U.K. and Canada. Flickr Commons / Maalikah Hartley
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With new spikes in tourist hotspots such as Mallorca and where vaccines are lagging such as Indonesia, it’s a shaky argument to make that international travel restrictions don’t help contain Covid. Vaccine equity will continue to shape the return of international travel.
U.S. travel leaders, increasingly frustrated by the lack of international travel, offered up on Wednesday three ways to reignite travel across the globe, including easing restrictions for the fully vaccinated from low-risk countries.
In a renewed plea, more than two dozen U.S. travel industry groups — including U.S. Travel Association, Airports Council International North America, the American Hotel and Lodging Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — submitted a proposed roadmap to ease U.S. international entry restrictions for traveler
