Tourism administration in the USA
Abstract The attitudes of US federal level administration to tourism in the USA over the past 20 years are discussed in relation to the background and signing into law of the 1981 National Tourism Policy Act, the first major piece of US tourism federal legislation since the 1961 International Travel Act. Focus is on the interplay between the Administration, Legislature and the private sector which led to the development of the Act. After a period of uncertainty the Act appeared to reaffirm federal support for tourism by raising it to Under Secretary level responsibility in the Department of Commerce and by establishing a new agency, the US Travel and Tourism Administration. However, since then the Administration has appeared to back-pedal by authorizing only a small budget and low staffing levels at the USTTA.
US government policy on international tourism
Abstract US tourism has undergone a number of major changes in the past few years. David Edgell, Director of the Office of Policy and Planning at the US Travel and Tourism Administration, reports on the current state of affairs.
The Congressional Black Caucus: Symbol, Myth, and Reality
Black leaders shift from the "politics of protest" to the "politics of the ballot box," the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is often viewed as a visible and concrete manifestation of black political power. For that reason alone, the CBC (composed of the seventeen black members of the House of Representatives1) should receive careful scrutiny it is one direction of black political strategy and presumably, as more blacks are elected to political office, it is a harbinger of things to come. If, as many believe, the CBC is the most powerful contemporary black political organization, analysis will reveal basic constraints and opportunities involved in reliance on electoral politics and the political process to achieve black ends. Ironically just at the time when a theoretical framework is most needed to elucidate