ASTA: Inbound Testing Rule Still Biggest Barrier to Full Travel Recovery
byDaniel McCarthy/
本周,旅行行业迈出了又一步,朝着正常恢复正常,尽管仍然带来一些不确定性,当时联邦法官周一裁定对联邦面具的授权进行裁定,而白宫则不久表示不会在审查中执行更长的执行。
司法部周三表示,将对该决定提出上诉after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requested it do so. Still, travelers this week,in most cases,如果他们选择的话,能够脱下面具。但是,即使有了这种变化,旅游业仍有空间。
美国旅行顾问学会(ASTA)本周强调,即使取消了任务授权,全面恢复国际旅行的最大障碍仍然是入站测试规则。
ASTA on Friday praised a push by a bipartisan group of 16 Members of Congress to drop the rule for vaccinated travelers, something it said would not only be consistent with the scientific consensus but would also allow “the travel industry’s recovery to begin in earnest.”
该组由代表Lou Correa(D-CA)领导,并包括过道两侧的名称。
“The current back and forth on the mask mandate pertaining to various forms of transportation misses the mark and overshadows very real policies deterring international travel. Requiring Americans to test negative prior to returning home from abroad is the public policy that needs immediate reversal,” ASTA President and CEO Zane Kerby said in a statement.
“Millions of Americans travel by air every day. Those traveling internationally risk quarantining abroad and navigating multiple foreign countries’ bureaucratic and ever-changing pandemic rules. As a result, Americans are delaying or simply canceling international trips, ensuring once again that travel will be the last industry to recover from the pandemic.”
According to ASTA, the change is a “commonsense” change that would match ones made in other main outbound markets, including the U.K., EU, Canada, and Australia.”
“The current policy also creates the false impression that travel outside of the U.S. invariably poses a greater COVID risk than travel within the U.S. How else would the typical traveler understand why a flight from London to New York requires testing while a flight from New York to Los Angeles does not?
“这些具有前瞻性的外国政府已经删除了其入站测试要求,美国也应该这样做。”
“Exempting the more than 218 million Americans who are fully vaccinated from the order would reflect the scientific consensus that widespread vaccination is the single most essential element of the fight against COVID-19 while allowing the travel industry’s recovery to begin in earnest,” Kerby said.