Trip.com CEO: Trump’s ‘America First’ Policies Are Hurting Travel, Killing Jobs
Photo Credit: Some of President Trump's policies imperil travel industry jobs. Pictured are staff at Quality Inn Oceanfront in Ocean City, Maryland. Choice Hotels
Skift Take
The bottom line is that several of President Trump's policies and his rhetoric are a big turn-off to many foreigners and the result is a measurable adverse impact on the U.S. and global travel industry.
Editor's Note: Travel community and booking site Trip.com has frequently been out-front in opposing discrimination, such as when the site updated its destination pages in 2015 to warn travelers about a law in Indiana that permitted businesses to refuse to serve various individuals if doing so violated business owners or association officials' religious beliefs. In the same spirit, Trip.com co-founder and CEO Travis Katz is speaking out in the following opinion piece about why he feels some of President Trump's policies are detrimental to the travel industry and U.S. jobs.
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