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One of the tourism industry’s most impacted and often overlooked groups, the U.S. travel agency trade is clamoring for federal government support to save the sector that is overwhelmingly comprised of small businesses.
This month, the American Society of Travel Advisers (ASTA) filed a Covid-19 relief request with Congress to the tune of a $9.3 billion travel agency grant program for its 14,000 member travel agencies and advisors. The filing also asks for an industry-wide Travel Employment Grant program at the U.S. Department of Treasury that is modeled on the airline Payroll Support Program.