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[QUOTE="Shamiso, post: 92542, member: 160"]
American Music Tourism Act cleared the US House, and President Donald Trump is next to act on it. S. 195 uses the Senate version. Basically, the Commerce Department would gain a music-tourism role covering US venues, studios, museums, festivals, concerts, and related events. Leisure trips would join business travel within its overseas promotion work.

Diana Harshbarger and Marsha Blackburn pushed the measure, with Nanette Barragán and John Hickenlooper joining from the other party. And once enacted, the Assistant Secretary for Travel and Tourism would identify key music spots, promote trips at home and abroad, then brief congressional committees within one year and every two years after.

CBO pegged implementation below USD $500,000 across its budget window. NIVA backed the plan and says independent stages account for 9.2% of US travel-and-tourism revenue, with USD $10.62 billion spent off-site. Its study put sector output at USD $153.1 billion and direct US GDP impact at USD $86.2 billion.
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