WASHINGTON, D.C. With the U.S. ranking behind 130 countries in national efforts to promote travel and tourism, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators and Congressman recently united with the Travel Business Roundtable to recommend that the Bush Administration establish a presidential advisory council on travel and tourism. The Travel Business Roundtable (TBR) also released a set of 18 policy recommendations for the administration and the 107th Congress in a document called Travel and Tourism: America s Passport to Success in the 21st Century.
As previously reported by HOTEL BUSINESS., at this year s Legislative Action Summit, the AH&LA discussed the need to create an association focused on promoting the United States as the premier global travel destination. The AH&LA also noted earlier this year that the U.S. is one of the few countries which doesn t promote itself as a destination. (5/1/01)