美国旅游业,国会继续推动取消入站测试规则
经过丹尼尔·麦卡锡(Daniel McCarthy)/
This week, the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA) continued its work, praising a push by a bipartisan group of 16 members of Congress to exempt vaccinated travelers from the inbound testing requirement,一项规则一直在拖延该行业后的恢复。
该小组包括众议员玛丽亚·萨拉萨(R-FL),吉米·帕内塔(Jimmy Panetta)(D-CA),肯·巴克(R-CO),吉姆·科斯塔(D-CA),哈罗德·罗杰斯(R-ky),国会旅行与旅游核心小组联合主席Dina Titus(D-NV),Brian Fitzpatrick(R-PA),Susie Lee(D-NV),Caucus Cocus联合主席Gus Bilirakis(R-FL),Markwayne Mullin(R-OK),Carlos Gimenez(Carlos Gimenez)(R-FL),John Katko(R-NY),Mark Amodei(R-NV),David Valadao(R-CA)和Larry Bucshon(R-IN)。
The group’s letter,which can be seen in full here, was written directly to President Joe Biden and concedes that the decision to put the inbound testing rule in place in January 2021 was understandable.
但是,现在的要求是“对我们的选民面临许多挑战……其生计取决于功能齐全的国际旅行系统。”
“As we enter the third year of the pandemic and reflect on how far the science related to COVID-19 mitigation has advanced since the order was first put in place, we respectfully request that fully vaccinated travelers be exempted from the order.
“免除包括近2.15亿美国人在内的全面疫苗接种的旅行者,将与科学共识一致,即广泛的疫苗接种是与Covid-19的斗争中最重要的疫苗接种,同时允许旅行行业的康复开始。这封信写道:“这也将激励那些未接种疫苗的人。”
长期以来,行业专家长期以来一直将测试要求视为旅行康复方式的最大障碍。航空公司报告公司总裁兼首席执行官劳里·里舍(Lauri Reishus)在接受TMR讲话时说,测试要求具有“dampening effect on people’s desire to travel” because of concerns about not being allowed in the U.S. if they do test positive, and because of having to secure a testing site abroad.
她说:“这确实给了您这种不确定性感,然后在您准备回到美国时还需要做一件事。”
ASTA倡导副总裁Eben Peck在自己的声明中写道,ASTA赞扬国会的推动力。
“我们赞扬国会议员科雷亚,他所有的科尔eagues who signed onto this important letter for recognizing that the CDC’s pre-departure testing rule is the single biggest barrier to the full recovery of the international travel system on which so many of their constituents in the travel industry rely,” he said.
“对这些立法者呼吁进行的常识性更改得到了整个行业的利益相关者的广泛支持,并将与我们的主要出站市场进行的变化相匹配,包括英国,欧盟,加拿大和澳大利亚。这也将增强旅行社业务的恢复,因为有超过2.15亿美国人在推迟国际旅行的情况下,因为这一规则会召集他们的旅行顾问并准备出发。”
阿斯塔(Asta)的声明在给白宫冠状病毒响应协调员杰弗里·泽斯特(Jeffrey Zients)和其他旅行组织(包括美国航空公司,AHLA,AHLA,GBTA,IATA,IATA和美国旅行协会)的另一封信后几个月来了。That letter pushed for the removal of the testing requirement for fully vaccinated U.S. citizens。