President Obama has signed a travel promotion act. This act is supposed to promote travel to the United States. This is hoped to act a economic stimulant and to create new jobs. The act will create a corporation that will be in charge of making travel to the United States more appealing. This will be funded by charging visitors a 10 dollar fee, along with a matching program. The U.S has not been spending much on promoting tourism in the past and it is thought that with this bill the U.S will generate an extra 4 billion dollars in tourist spending. They also would like to "improve" entry and exit procedures to make traveling to the U.S more convenient.
I think that this travel promotion act is a little unnecessary. First of all, I don't understand how charging a 10 dollar fee is promoting travel. Also, I think that people are going to travel to the United States if they want to. I don't see how people are going to convince the world to travel to the United States because chances are, people already have their options about the U.S and if they desire to travel there. I don't think the United States is very unknown to many people. Also, from my understanding this act is not giving people money to travel to the U.S, because some people may already want to visit but maybe they don't have the money in the first place. I don't understand how entry and exit procedures are planned to be improved. There is a reason for why the U.S has the systems that they do and I don't understand why they would cut back on security just to make traveling more convenient for people.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/03/04/travel.promotion.act/index.html
I think that this travel promotion act is a little unnecessary. First of all, I don't understand how charging a 10 dollar fee is promoting travel. Also, I think that people are going to travel to the United States if they want to. I don't see how people are going to convince the world to travel to the United States because chances are, people already have their options about the U.S and if they desire to travel there. I don't think the United States is very unknown to many people. Also, from my understanding this act is not giving people money to travel to the U.S, because some people may already want to visit but maybe they don't have the money in the first place. I don't understand how entry and exit procedures are planned to be improved. There is a reason for why the U.S has the systems that they do and I don't understand why they would cut back on security just to make traveling more convenient for people.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/03/04/travel.promotion.act/index.html
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