travel industry
U.S. Travel Congratulates Speaker Johnson, Urges Action on Spending Bills, Industry Investments
U.S. Travel Association | October 26, 2023
WASHINGTON (October 26, 2023)—U.S. Travel Association Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and Policy Tori Emerson Barnes issued the following statement after the U.S. House confirmed Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker of the House: “U.S. Travel congratulates Speaker Mike Johnson on his election to lead the House, and we look forward to working with him on issues critical to the travel industry, from the completion of FY24 appropriations bills to maintaining funding for the federal government. “Travel, essential to practically all other industries nationwide, depends on the uninterrupted services of the government. A shutdown wo...
U.S. Travel Applauds Senate Commerce Committee Action on FAA Task Force Bill
U.S. Travel Association | March 23, 2023
U.S. Travel Association Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and Policy Tori Emerson Barnes issued the following statement on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee’s favorable markup of S. 66, the NOTAM Improvement Act of 2023, which would create a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) task force to improve the Notice to Air Mission system: “This bipartisan legislation forming an expert task force will create the opportunity to strengthen aviation safety and help prevent the system failures that grounded air travel nationwide earlier this year. As Congress addresses FAA reauthorization, it must modernize all aspects of our air system...
Tourism Tidbits: Travel Rage in a Time of Pandemics
Peter E. Tarlow | August 3, 2020
By Dr. Peter Tarlow During the last decade, tourism officials have noted the evolution of various types of angers among those in the general public and especially among those in the traveling public. These angers first became apparent in the form of road rage then became air-rage, morphed into full-blown travel rage, with verbal anger at times turning into physical violence. Now in a time of pandemic, with the public never sure about what is and will be open or closed, we face the newest form of rage: “Travel Pandemic Rage”. Due to an ever-increasing tourism bureaucracy and often poor levels of customer service som...
Next Round of Coronavirus Relief: What the Travel Industry Needs
The U.S. Travel Association | April 13, 2020
WASHINGTON (April 13, 2020)—All but shut down by the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. travel industry submitted a fresh list of urgent policy requests to Congress to protect the 15.8 million Americans whose livelihoods depend on travel. At the top of the list: adding $600 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and expanding eligibility to small businesses that were previously left out; and ensuring loan forgiveness can cover both payroll and other operating expenses during the shutdown. A key example of small businesses that were unintentionally excluded from the PPP under the CARES Act: local and regional destination marketin...
Travel Industry Struggling with Attribution
EyeforTravel | April 25, 2017
Attribution continues to be an issue for the travel and tourism industry as travellers hop across devices and sites during their journey according to EyeforTravel's State of Data and Analytics in Travel Report 2017. Of the marketing professionals surveyed, 54.3% reporting that they could either track users to a limited degree (24.5%), just on their own domains (16%) or not at all (13.8%). For those companies that report that they can track users in some detail, a quarter say they can track them across most devices and touchpoints. A further 20.7% report that they can track users across touchpoints but not across devices, illustrating th...
