Hilton CEO Says U.S. Government Needs to Act to Help Tourism
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Chris Nassetta, CEO of Hilton and incoming national chair of the U.S. Travel Association, called on Wednesday for U.S. government officials to cut visa wait times that he said were hurting the country's domestic travel sector and U.S. federal revenues.
"I was deeply involved with the effort to lobby the Obama Administration when we had a very similar issue, though it wasn't as extreme," Nassetta said. "We worked closely with the Administration to get it down to 21 days. So we're going to make the case again."
Roughly 40 percent of people with an intent to travel to the U.S. live in a country where they must get an interview at a U.S. consulate as part of their visa application. Several consulates and embassies now have wait times in the hundreds of days. According to the U.S. S
