In the 20 years since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, much has changed in the travel sector.
And for good reason – travel was the vehicle by which the terrorists conducted their atrocities.
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From that moment on the travel sector changed dramatically, to the point where U.S. News and World Report noted that an entire generation of people have no idea what travel was like prior to Sept. 11, 2001.
Here are several ways travel has changed since the 9/11 attacks.
The Creation of the TSA
The Transportation Security Administration was created in the wake of the attacks and was operational just two months later in November of 2001. The federal agency, in effect, nationalized airport security. Today, there are more than 50,000 TSA agents working at airports nationally.
The TSA is fallible. We have seen that with…