Visa Impact Study

Visa Impact Study

Feature 1: At IAEE’s Expo! Expo! event in New Orleans, Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, outlined the association’s advocacy efforts to address international visa issues. - Expoweb.com 

Quantifying the impact of Visa issues on the U.S. economy (CEIR/Oxford Economics study) – Visa issues precluded 116,000 international participants from attending US exhibitions. It cost the US economy $2.6 billion, 43,000 jobs and three-quarters of a billion dollars in state and federal taxes - IAEE.org 

Obama promises to include Poland in visa free travel program – Foreign Policy 

Corporation for Travel Promotion plans to feature Obama in video - TravelWeekly 

Nevada Tourism ad

Nevada Tourism ad as Google case study

Feature 2: At the Governors Conference on Tourism in Reno, JoLyn Laney, deputy director of marketing and advertising for the Nevada Commission on Tourism, said the state is not abandoning traditional media messages, but is focusing more on a new generation of travelers who communicate via Facebook and Twitter and post their pictures and videos on Flickr and YouTube. 

The state estimates that it receives $31 in media exposure for every dollar spent. Prior to using some new media channels, the return was about $17 per dollar. – LV Sun 

Stephen P.A. Brown, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada – “Nevada tourism is making a comeback already from a really big blow.” – Wash. Post 

U.S. gaming revenues will increase to over $68 billion in 2014 with recovery expected in late 2011 – PricewaterhouseCoopers 

Here’s the rest of the week’s news headlines:- 

Google just dodged the Groupon bullet – The Motley Fool
Expedia shoots down google – The Motley Fool 

After getting hassled by Facebook, travel planner Placebook goes live as TripTrace – VentureBeat
Click! They found you a destination! - Boston Globe 

State of Massachusetts launches ill-conceived tourism campaign on YouTube – ReelSEO
YouTube’s Rapping Bavarian Nutcracker puts Leavenworth, WA on the map – Jaunted 

A detailed examination of the role of online social media in travel – PhoCusWright (press release)
How to create compelling content via social media (part 1 of 4) – Eye4Travel (press release) 

Technologies rapidly being developed to put space tourism within reach – EngineeringNews
Space company’s secret cargo a ‘cheesy’ joke – CNN 

Blackstone said to seize 14 Columbia Sussex hotels it sold five years ago – Bloomberg
Blackstone names Interstate Hotels & Resorts to manage 13 properties – IHRCO.com 

$1.2b in high-speed rail funds yanked from Ohio, Wisconsin and sent to other states – Chicago Trib
China’s CSR, GE may bid on California, Florida high-speed rail - BusinessWeek

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