14 years
Not fingerprinting foreign passport holder would be more effective than another $10 fee for additional advertisementto try to lure them in. But of course it does encourage many travellers to avoid the US and come to Canada!
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U.S. set to begin luring foreign tourists
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/27/1502853/us-set-to-begin-luring-foreign.html
The United States will spend up to $200 million targeting foreign tourists under a bill that passed Congress this week and is all but assured of a presidential signature.
South Florida tourism officials lobbied for the Travel Promotion Act, which creates a $10 fee charged mostly to European visitors to fund up to $100 million a year for advertising campaigns and other marketing efforts. The travel industry would provide the other $100 million in joint ad purchases, donated trips for travel writers, and other contributions.
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The United States has not had a national tourism campaign since a spotty effort in Europe in the middle of the last decade that amounted to less than $50 million over three years, according to the travel association. While many other nations have a tourism ministry as a cabinet-level position, the U.S. has only a small tourism office devoted to research.
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