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Biden urged to use testing to ‘safely reopen’ US borders

Destinations
Rob Gill
28 January 2021

New US president Joe Biden has been urged to “safely reopen” the country’s borders to international visitors by removing travel bans and using a “risk-based” Covid-19 testing regime.

Dow will retire from his role next July

US Travel Association president and chief executive Roger Dow acknowledged the “hardships” the pandemic has inflicted on the US travel industry including the loss of 4.5 million jobs, during his annual State of the Travel Industry speech in Washington DC on Wednesday (27 January).

“Our goal is not simply to recover what we’ve lost, but to rebuild an industry that’s even better positioned than before the crisis – one that’s more globally competitive, more innovative and more unified,” said Dow.