The US Department of Commerce has launched a plan to attract 90 million foreign tourists annually in an attempt to recoup billions of dollars in tourism revenue lost during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the plan’s goal is to create jobs and meet annual tourism spending. about $279 billion.
“The COVID-19 virus has also provided us with a unique opportunity to shape a travel and tourism industry that is more inclusive, fair, resilient and sustainable than ever before,” she said in a statement, adding that “before the pandemic, travel and tourism generated a trade surplus of $53.4 billion and created one million jobs “in the United States”.
About 80 million foreign travelers visited the country in 2019, contributing about $240 billion to the American economy, but that number has more than halved in 2020. Thanks to the availability of vaccines on a large scale, the number of foreign arrivals increased by a month to more than two million people in April 2022, up from about 775,000 people in October 2021.
Source: El Iktisad
