Setting an optimistic tone for the year ahead, the U.S. Travel Association — exactly one week following President Biden’s inauguration — shared its long-term policy platform (PDF) and recommendations for the Biden administration on rebuilding the nation’s tourism industry.
The measures that the travel trade group propose to revive tourism — which it presented at its 2021 State of the Travel Industry, calling it “travel’s next chapter” — fall under five principal pillars: economic recovery, infrastructure and mobility, global competitiveness, reimagining air travel and improving travel facilitation.
The most important recommended steps include, among others:
- Policies and incentives to safely bring back meetings and…