Travel Promotion Act Scheduled for Senate Floor Action September 8
Ask Your Senators to Support TPA
SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 - The important U.S. Senate vote on the industry's Travel Promotion Act (S. 1023) is scheduled for next Tuesday, September 8, 2009.
Your Senators need to hear from you today that this beneficial bill will provide a very cost-effective means to help boost our nation's weakened economy and create thousands of jobs.
The bill was facing a final vote in June, but was pulled by Senate leadership when a number of unrelated amendments threatened to stop the bill's progress. Since then, your emails, phone calls, and the industry's lobbying convinced Senate leadership that this job-producing bill deserved a second chance.
It's important we show the Senate that this bill has strong grassroots support and deserves passage.
The Travel Promotion Act (TPA) would create a public-private partnership to better explain U.S. security policies and promote U.S. travel to attract millions of additional overseas visitors-at no cost to the American taxpayer. It is estimated that TPA would help attract 1.6 million new international visitors, create $4 billion in new spending, and drive $321 million in new federal tax revenue. It will also help create thousands of new employment opportunities in travel businesses across America.
The campaign would be jointly funded by a nominal fee on visitors from visa waiver countries along with voluntary industry contributions. No taxpayer funds would be spent, making this legislation a bargain for America.
Your e-mails matter. Please contact your two U.S. Senators today and urge them to support this bill when it comes up for a vote in the full Senate next week.
If you are an AH&LA member in Alaska, California, Connecticut, New Mexico, or Utah please make an extra effort to contact your Senators and let them know how important this bill is to the state's lodging and travel industries. Senators Murkowski, Feinstein, Lieberman, Bingaman, and Bennett especially need to hear about this bill, as they offered non-travel amendments in June that helped stop the bill in its tracks.
It only takes 2 minutes to make a difference.
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