Lawmakers and the travel industry are pitching smoother security lines, faster visas, and upgraded airports as ways to ease the return of tourism when the U.S. reopens to vaccinated foreigners in November.
Senators said they are working to pull together a big travel and tourism bill at a Tuesday Senate Commerce, Science, and Technology subcommittee hearing.
U.S. to Open Air Travel to Most Vaccinated Foreigners
The hearing comes just a day after the White House announced the U.S. will soon allow entry to most foreign air travelers as long as they’re fully vaccinated against Covid-19, a move that the struggling industry has been urging for months.
“With this announcement, the hard work now begins to make the United States the top destination in the world once again,” Tori Emerson Barnes, executive vice…