1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov December 14, 2017Brand USA: Congressional Appropriators and Administration Disagree on Funding Cuts for U.S. Tourism PromotionThe Trump Administrations FY2018 budget proposed eliminating the governments annual grant to Brand USA, a public-private effort to promote the
2、 United States as a travel destination for foreign visitors, and using the money instead for homeland security. That proposal has not been adopted by Congress, in part because specific authorizing legislation would be required to effect this change. As a result, neither the House-passed nor Senate A
3、ppropriations Committee draft of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill for FY2018 assumes these resources would be available for other purposes. However, Brand USA remains controversial, with some critics asserting that promotion of tourism should be left to the private secto
4、r, and it is possible the Administration will again recommend ending its federal grant when the FY2019 budget is released in February. Tourism Promotion in the United States Over 75.5 million foreign visitors traveled to the United States in 2016, spending nearly $245 billion on hotels, meals, fligh
