ASTA到CDC:使恢复旅行信心成为“重中之重”
经过丹尼尔·麦卡锡(Daniel McCarthy)/
A lack of government communication when it comes to the restart of the travel industry has made it difficult for consumer confidence to grow, and it’s time for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other government organizations to start addressing it.
这是根据ASTA总裁兼首席执行官Zane Kerby的一封信,周一寄给了CDC的Robert R. Redfield。
在信中,ASTA写道,由于ASTA调查显示,由于Covid-19对旅行社社区的“灾难性影响”(预计今年将损失至少77亿美元),因此必须将重点放在恢复消费者对旅行系统的信心。
克尔比写道:“为了这些美国人,他们的家人,客户和旅行公众的生计,至关重要的是,旅游业至关重要。”包括旅行供应商的人。
“对于联邦政府而言,这意味着疾病控制与预防中心(CDC)必须在不久的将来制定特定旅行指南中起着核心作用。”
The CDC’s guidance so far, Kerby wrote, “has been uneven at best,” with a No Sail Order in March for the cruise industry but very little guidance on other segments of the travel industry, which has “unquestionably” inhibited the revival of the industry.
这封信概述了CDC与其他政府组织现在可以朝着这一目标迈进的四个目标:
1.在所有旅行模式中设置明确的标准。
ASTA要求疾病预防控制中心在每个细分市场中告诉供应商是他们重新开放和重新启动所需的步骤,ASTA认为,通过允许消费者开始自信地预订,ASTA认为“将增强新生旅行恢复”。
2.优先考虑邮轮行业的重新启动。
ASTA要求为CDC释放以重新启动邮轮行业的特定时间表。
3.优先考虑护照处理。
According to the State Department, U.S. passport services have started to resume after the “unprecedented challenge” that COVID-19 presented. Just 11 passport agencies have entered Phase One of the service restart. For travel to really get back on the track to normalcy, ASTA urges the CDC and the State Deptartment “to make the restoration of normal passport processing operations a priority.”
4.优先考虑国际旅行的恢复。
根据健康,安全和安全措施,ASTA敦促“政府将美国政府的外交资产集中在与全球政府合作,以恢复跨境的自由旅行。”目前,该州开设区仍然有4级:不要旅行自3月31日以来一直活跃的全球健康咨询。
“Taken together with the financial relief provided to travel business by the U.S. Congress and the private sector doing its part, we believe the steps outlined above will help instill consumer confidence and get America’s economy, and its intrepid travelers, moving again.”