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Tourism executives believe visa processing delays are holding back the industry's recovery.
Some countries, including the United States, have yet to make a full tourism recovery from the pandemic, and lengthy waits for visitor visas are one reason why. Several travel executives have argued that those long waits have hurt the ability to attract visitors.
How do visa processing delays affect tourism? We posed the question to Ask Skift, our artificial intelligence chatbot. It used information from our past news coverage and Skift Research. We also conducted additional reporting.
What Ask Skift Said About Visa Delays:Visa processing delays can significantly impact tourism in several ways.
Firstly, they can deter potential tourists from choosing a destination. For example, travelers from many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are choosing more accessible Latin American destinations such as Cancun over popular U.S. destinations like Las Vegas due to long visa processing delays in the U.S. <