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>Member Benefits
What Can U.S. Travel Do For You?
U.S. Travel can give you the exclusive power to:
Making the U.S. Travel Connection
Your U.S. Travel membership is about much more than reduced registration fees for educational programs or discounted access to the latest travel research. Your U.S. Travel membership is about making important connections that can help your business and strengthen our entire industry.
Once you join U.S. Travel, your website will be linked to this site and your organization will be listed in a membership directory—an online membership resource that's a "Who's Who" of the U.S. travel and tourism industry.
At the local level, it can be hard to find peers from your industry segment who aren't direct competitors, and who are willing to share their winning sales strategies. Join U.S. Travel, and you'll find a wealth of peer resources across the country that are eager to share their success stories.
Since 1941, the U.S. Travel Member logo has represented excellence, service, and reliability. U.S. Travel has the resources and the reputation to make our brands work for you.
Educational Programs & Events
U.S. Travel hosts five unique and distinctive events annually—each with a different focus, but all with great networking opportunities. The Educational Programs and Signature Events Calendar will give you a glimpse into the world of travel research, marketing, e-commerce, international marketing and government advocacy that U.S. Travel has to offer.
Take Advantage of U.S. Travel's Targeted Marketing Opportunities
International Pow Wow® There are trade shows, and then there's "Pow Wow". If your company has been eyeing the international market, and is looking for an affordable alternative to overseas travel, then International Pow Wow is for you. During three days of pre-scheduled business appointments, U.S. travel suppliers from across the country meet with more than 1,500 international buyers representing more than 70 countries. Because U.S. Travel Members are given right-of-first-refusal for booth space at International Pow Wow, joining U.S. Travel is a critical first step to tapping into the more than $3.5 billion of Visit USA travel generated during this annual show.
PowWowOnline.com A virtual business-to-business marketplace designed for US travel suppliers and destinations, Pow Wow Online® helps you promote your travel product 365 days a year to travel buyers around the globe. Pow Wow Online is a free service for registered participants in U.S. Travel's International Pow Wow.
DiscoverAmerica.com U.S. Travel has built the first official U.S. Travel and Tourism website in multiple languages to promote the U.S. as a premier destination to international inbound leisure travelers. Your U.S. Travel membership gives you access to the Discover America brand, which automatically commends you as a top supplier of USA travel.
Discover America International Programs Travel and tourism is one of America's most successful industries, generating a trade surplus that helps offset the nation's trade deficit. Yet, research shows a decline of 17 percent in international travel to the U.S. since 2000, even as global travel is expanding. In addition, America's image abroad is also faltering with favorable opinions of the U.S. standing at less than 50 percent in most countries.
Now is the time to turn that around! The U.S. Travel Association has expanded our efforts in the international arena with our Discover America International Program. We have developed a number of trade and consumer opportunities to suit all budgets and interests.
Discover America - USA Travel Guide
The 1,250,000-issue Discover America - USA Travel Guide reaches prospective international travelers in 21 countries. Striking photos and crisp copy are used to entice visitors to choose the USA as their holiday destination. The Guide is published by Bellevue, Washington-based Small World Publications and is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
Travel Research & Information
Your U.S. Travel Membership gives you privileged access to the leading-edge travel research. U.S. Travel's Research staff produces accurate, meaningful data that define the economic, social, and environmental significance of travel and tourism at the national, state, and local level. Regular members are granted password-protected access to executive summaries of the latest industry research and can receive a 40% discount on our research publications. Save on subscription packages. As a U.S. Travel member, you'll have affordable access to U.S. Travel's authoritative research data. U.S. Travel offers three subscription packages at significantly reduced member rates and all current reports are available in PDF format for convenient online viewing.
Unite as One Industry, One Voice
U.S. Travel Association is working every day in Washington, DC to protect the interests of the U.S. travel industry. The U.S. Travel Association represents all our members through a coordinated, cohesive strategy to communicate our industry's concerns and priorities to federal elected and appointed officials.
With U.S. Travel Association's strong commitment to public affairs, our members will enjoy greater involvement in domestic issues and benefit from our efforts on policy and research, strategic communications and grassroots support. This enhanced capability will enable the U.S. Travel Association to go on the offense to make improvements to the travel process … not sit back in defense as obstacles to travelcontinue to mount.
But, the most critical resource that will elevate this industry in Washington and give us greater clout with lawmakers is YOU! Travel Industry Leaders are our greatest asset and our greatest advocates. You can deal with Senators and Representatives from a position of real strength since you are speaking to them as business leaders and constituents. We urge you to get involved and become an advocate for the travel industry! Become part of a collective, unified and more powerful voice for the travel and tourism industry.
Tourism Awareness Our Tourism Awareness program provides you with the marketing materials, research, and promotional items to celebrate tourism's significance in your community all year long, culminating in National Tourism Week each May.
U.S. Travel Keeps You Informed
USTravel.org U.S. Travel Association's website is the U.S. travel industry's constantly evolving Internet resource for travel research, industry news, and updates on U.S. Travel Association's legislative and marketing efforts on your behalf. Our online Industry Events Calendar is a comprehensive datebook containing information on industry trade shows, governor's conferences, annual conventions, etc.
Travel Industry Update Located in the Research and Publications section of ustravel.org, provides you with industry overviews for various sectors including the hotel and air travel, and also gives you access to results of recent industry surveys. This information plus the latest on tour operators, highway travel, restaurants, destinations and other segments of the industry are refreshed periodically. As a member you will also be able to click on the Archives button to search archived materials by month, industry sector or topic.
U.S. Travel Insights The monthly newsletter that brings you the latest industry news and research.
Research Alert The newsletter that features recently released products and promotes other research data available from the U.S. Travel Association.
TravelGreen.org U.S. Travel has launched a website, www.travelgreen.org, with American Express, our partners in travel. The purpose of the website is to serve as a centralized repository for the travel industry where users can find the latest information pertaining to environmental sustainability.
PowerofTravel.org An interactive Web site that presents all of the available economic impact data on travel in an easy-to-navigate format that enables the user to see the benefits of travel from the international level down to individual congressional districts.
U.S. Travel News Brief This weekly newsletter provides the most relevant stories, gathered from sources like The Associated Press, The New York Times, Financial Times and the leading industry publications. The U.S. Travel News Brief keeps members informed of topics that impact the daily operation of their business.
Awards Programs Since 1951, U.S. Travel has conducted a national awards program to honor our members for their innovative, creative, and truly effective efforts in the travel industry. U.S. Travel strives to stimulate greater achievement and raise industry-wide standards. These awards are bestowed upon deserving companies and individuals annually at U.S. Travel's National Awards Gala.
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