{"id":6334,"date":"2010-03-06T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/obama-signs-travel-promotion-act\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T07:47:00","slug":"obama-signs-travel-promotion-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/obama-signs-travel-promotion-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Signs Travel Promotion Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPresident Barack Obama signed the Travel Promotion Act this past Thursday which will introduce a new $10 foreign tax to foreign travelers visiting the United States.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe money from the tax will go toward a $100 million promotion plan that will help get the word out on tourism to the United States around the world.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSadly until this act was passed the United States only spent about $6 million per year on promoting tourism. In comparison, countries like Mexico and Australia normally spend $100 million each year to attract foreign visitors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTravel to the United States has taken a hit over the last decade thanks to the attacks of 9\/11, anti-American sentiment around the world due to the Bush administration and the worldwide economic meltdown.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: Associated Press<br \/>\n<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; President Barack Obama signed the Travel Promotion Act this past Thursday which will introduce a new $10 foreign tax to foreign travelers visiting the United States. &nbsp; The money from the tax will go toward a $100 million promotion plan that will help get the word out on tourism to the United States around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}