Senators from both parties want to create a position to oversee US tourism to help the travel industry recover after the pandemic.
“Our tourism sector—given how important it is to the economy of the US—really doesn’t have a strong singular voice,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said at a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, adding that the US is the only country in the Group of 20 rich and developing nations without a high-ranking tourism official.
The idea of an…