106 STAT. 1170 PUBLIC LAW 102-372—SEPT. 30, 1992 Public Law 102-372 102d Congress An Act Sept. 30, 1992 To amend the International Travel Act of 1961 to assist in the growth of international [8. 680] travel and tourism in the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Tourism Policy the United States of America in Congress assembled, and Export Promotion Act SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCE. of 1992. Commerce and (a) SHORT TITLE. — T his Act may be cited as the "Tourism PoUcy trade. and Export Promotion Act of 1992". relations ^^^ REFERENCE.—Whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal 22 U^2i2l is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section note. or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the International Travel Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2121 et seq.). 22 USC 2121 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that— (1) the travel and tourism industry is the second largest retail or service industry in the United States; (2) travel and tourism receipts make up over 6.7 percent of the United States gross national product; (3) in 1991, the travel and tourism industry generated about six million jobs directly and about two million five hundred thousand indirectly; (4) travel and tourism expenditures in 1991 were approximately $352,000,000,000; (5) forty-two million international visitors spent approximately $64,700,000,000 in the United States in 1991; (6) travel and tourism services ranked as the largest United States business services export in 1991, providing a United States travel trade balance of $16,800,000,000; (7) many local communities with significant tourism potential are imable to realize the economic and employment opportunities that tourism provides because they lack the necessary local resources and expertise needed to induce tourism trade; (8) increased efforts directed at the promotion of rural tourism will contribute to the economic development of rural America and further the conservation and promotion of natural, scenic, historic, scientific, educational, inspirational, and recreational resources for future generations of Americans and foreign visitors; (9) foreign tourists entering the United States are fi:e- quently faced with unnecessary delays at the United States border; (10) advanced technologies, industrial targeting, the industrialization of the Third World, and the flight of some United States manufacturing capacity to overseas locations have affected the international competitiveness of the United States;
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