U.S. Travel’s Roger Dow on VP’s Tourism Panel

The U.S. Travel Association | May 21, 2020

ORLANDO (May 21, 2020)—U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Roger Dow and other industry leaders met with Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday at a roundtable on the hard-hit travel and tourism sector, afterward expressing appreciation for the vice president's attentiveness to the industry's concerns and needs. The latest data shows that travel-related unemployment in the U.S. is now at 51%—more than double the worst national unemployment rate recorded during the Great Depression (25%). "It's a difficult time in every corner of the country, but the pandemic has been particularly dire for the American travel industry, which befor...