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Asia Destinations Look to Indian Tourists as Chinese Remain Home: Destinations were counting on China as the Asian market that will drive tourism recovery. Increasingly, however, their attention is shifting to India, which may be smaller than China, but mighty in its own way
Simply put, a broad-based economic recovery is impossible without a revival of the travel industry, Dow said.
He called on making sure travel businesses have access to grants, loans and programs to help them get back on their feet and for policies and incentives that safely bring back meetings and events.
Dow also asked for the acceleration of some familiar policy priorities for U.S. Travel, such as the implementation of biometric technology at airports, enhanced and streamlined travel facilitation programs such as TSA Precheck and Global Entry and an expanded Visa Waiver Program. He renewed the call for investment in infrastructure to the tune of $550 billion in highways, transit systems, passenger rail and airports over the next five years, and for additional funding for national parks.
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Brand USA Launches High-Level COVID-19 Indicator Dashboard
Brand USAJanuary 26, 2021 GMT
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Today, Brand USA, the destination marketing organization for the United States, launches its highly anticipated COVID-19 Indicator Dashboard a gating criteria dashboard designed to provide high-level updates of current COVID-19-related conditions in global inbound markets for U.S. travel. The dashboard summarizes how individual markets are performing in relation to recovery targets, which have been designed to help determine when recovery is sufficient for effective marketing activity.
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U.S. travel executives will watch with hope along with the rest of the world at noon Wednesday as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris assume the office of president and vice president of the United States. The official swearing in will mark the end of four long years of Donald Trump that left the travel industry frustrated and even baffled by stifling policies.
Things get better immediately, as President Biden will overturn Trump’s ban from Muslim-majority countries through executive order just hours after the inauguration. But that’s just one reason travel executives are hopeful. The new 117th Congress sharing the same party-majority party as the president means policies impacting travel should not face the same familiar partisan bottlenecks.
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