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U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Roger Dow issued the following statement on the full Senate passage of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, which includes the Restoring Brand USA Act to provide $250 million in relief funding to the United States’ destination marketing organization:

The Walt Disney Company announced Thursday it has paused all businesses in Russia amid the war in Ukraine.

Estonia has suspended accepting new e-residency applications from Russian and Belarusian citizens to “prevent sanctions evasion and possible illegal activities.”

The UNWTO Executive Council has decided to hold an extraordinary UNWTO General Assembly to address the suspension of the membership of the Russian Federation.

Skål International, which is the world's broadest association of travel industry leaders with approximately 13,000 members in 100 countries, 323 cities, stands strongly in favor of the use of diplomacy to avoid such conflicts and calls on all nations to use both diplomatic negotiations and the good offices of such organizations as the United Nations to resolve differences.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it has received enough petitions to meet the congressionally mandated H-2B cap for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2022.

The International LGBTQ+ Travel Association today welcomed American Express Travel as its first global partner in the financial services sector.

A new set of guidelines will help both governments and businesses better address the needs of women in the tourism sector.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, February 25, 2022, relaxed the mask mandate. Now, most people in the United States live in areas where those who are healthy do not need to wear masks indoors.

Vegan Travel Asia by VegVoyages has become a signatory of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, officially launched at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).

The Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) will be in Geneva this week for high-level talks focused on the restart of tourism as restrictions on travel are eased in many parts of the world.

Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary-General of The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) issued a statement saying after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, people, as well as our whole societies and economies, have suffered enough.

When students get started on their college journeys, they rarely contemplate the likelihood of being compelled to quit.

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) welcomed the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) as its newest government member.