President Biden Ends Discriminatory Travel Ban


Skift Take

Despite the travel industry's continued growth from the Obama administration into the first three years of the Trump era, its leaders found themselves apologizing for the president's offensive comments, discriminatory policies and lack of planning. The hopeful normalcy of a Biden administration will be a welcome relief.

One of Donald Trump's first acts as president in January of 2017 was to institute a ban on travel to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority nations. On the first day of his presidency on Wednesday, Joe Biden rescinded that ban in a flurry of 16 presidential actions. Biden's move revok