Comments on: What we’re reading: Four Las Vegas tales, WTO rules in Airbus subsidies case, US considers $10 tourist fee

By: glorya

glorya — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:32:40 +0000

Where has common sense gone? Charge a “tourist fee” when we need all the tourists we can get? But’ then again, who said Congress, those proposing this travesty and the powers to be had “common sense.” .

By: Hapgood

Hapgood — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:50:24 +0000

Let’s see…. the left hand wants to charge tourists for promoting tourism. The right hand wants to do everything possible to discourage tourism with onerous “security” measures that treat every visitor like a convicted felon (perhaps because the officials are hard of hearing and “tourism” sounds too much like “terrorism”?). What’s wrong with this picture?

By: Graham Harrison

Graham Harrison — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:53:58 +0000

I thought the US authorities were beginning to understand that tourism is a good thing and needs to be encouraged. Despite much ongoing negative publicity I find US immigration is much improved (but not perfect) compared with earlier times (I have an abiding memory of an unfriendly reception on the East Coast back in the early 80s).

But it seems they don’t understand that getting people to pay so you can promote the country back to the people paying is a bit cock-eyed.