{"id":21706,"date":"2012-01-23T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/historic-tourism-move-by-america-has-australia-rattled-3\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T01:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T01:07:00","slug":"historic-tourism-move-by-america-has-australia-rattled-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/01\/historic-tourism-move-by-america-has-australia-rattled-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic tourism move by America has Australia rattled"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mjovmzOUWfk\/TxyyciYm4rI\/AAAAAAAAStg\/dRFE_gD16DE\/s1600\/Barack-Obama_123.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mjovmzOUWfk\/TxyyciYm4rI\/AAAAAAAAStg\/dRFE_gD16DE\/s400\/Barack-Obama_123.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">President Obama pledges to tackle USA&#8217;s growing loss of global tourism market share<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>by Peter Needham<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-173272\" height=\"47\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/egtmedia176.png\" title=\"egtmedia\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>US  President Barack Obama has launched a bold new plan to revive  international tourist travel to the US and claw back the country\u2019s  international tourism market share. America\u2019s share of the international  tourism pie has been shrinking for many years<b>.<\/b><br \/><b><span><\/span><\/b><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The initiative, long overdue, will make it easier and faster for  tourists to visit the US. The proposed measures have won strong support  from virtually all sectors of the US travel industry, an indication that  they are on the right track and a sound step for America.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it has worried the Australian industry. If foreign  tourists find it much easier to visit America, they may do that instead  of visiting Australia. Tourists from China, for instance, currently need  to get a visa to come to Australia and it can be a hassle.<\/p>\n<p>For America, Obama\u2019s new plan is a milestone. More than many  countries, the US needs to tread a fine line, welcoming tourists while  &nbsp;keeping out those who seek to damage the US through terrorism, or who  want to come in ostensibly as tourists and then stay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/2-headline-news\/historic-tourism-move-by-america-has-australia-rattled.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full Story <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama pledges to tackle USA&#8217;s growing loss of global tourism market share by Peter Needham US President Barack Obama has launched a bold new plan to revive international tourist travel to the US and claw back the country\u2019s international tourism market share. America\u2019s share of the international tourism pie has been shrinking for many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}