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On the Hill: U.S. Travel emphasizes the need to reform visa process

An occasional series of excerpts highlighting testimony delivered at House and Senate hearings by association leaders. Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, testified April 5 before the Senate Subcommittee on Competitiveness, Innovation and Export Promotion, part of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, about tourism in America and promoting growth. [...] Travel provides good, domestic jobs that cannot be outsourced. [...] In every state and county across America, travel helps pay the salaries of police, firefighters and teachers without creating much new demand for those public services. I am here today to tell you that… Read More