WTTC President & CEO Julia Simpson has welcomed the USA’s decision to lift all covid travel restrictions for the country last Friday (10 June).
“We welcome the decision by the Biden administration and CDC to lift the damaging testing requirement for travellers.” She said.
“It will provide much-needed relief to the embattled sector.”
She continued,
“The long-term recovery of U.S. Travel & Tourism now looks positive, with our projections showing that a fully recovered sector will create more than six million new jobs over the next 10 years. But short term, the measure caused untold damage to an already devastated sector as international visitor spending has been so low over the past two years.”
Previously ,the U.S. required provide of vaccination upon entry to the country.
