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The Interactive Travel Services Association (ITSA) is the association for online travel companies and global distribution systems. ITSA is the voice of the industry on public policy matters, and on educating policy makers, opinion leaders and the traveling public about the industry and matters of import that will affect travel and tourism generally.

Current Issues

Hotel Occupancy Taxes. ITSA members continue to confront efforts to impose taxes on the compensation they receive for facilitating the booking of hotel rooms through their websites. These tax initiatives, if not stopped, would not only be harmful to the online travel business model that played a substantial role in driving travel and tourism, but to the traveling public and the tax-collecting authorities themselves. ITSA will continue its efforts to educate policy makers all over the country to the dangers of these tax initiatives.

Baggage and Other Unbundled Air Fares and Fees. ITSA supports full disclosure of new fees applicable to air travel, and strongly believes that such fees should be purchasable by consumers ath te time they book their travel.

As airlines disaggregate, or "unbundle," their fares, consumers need to have immediate, easy and understandable access to all of the new fees. Airlines should make those promptly available to the public through travel distributors, in a way that is fully purchasable, i.e., “transactable,” presented in a constantly updated fashion, or “dynamically,” and enables consumers to comparison shop on prices on an all-in, apples-to-apples basis, across airlines.

Travel Promotion. With ITSA’s support, the President of our member Sabre has been named to the Board of the new Corporation for Travel Promotion, established under the Travel Promotion Act, which ITSA also supported. The goal of the Corporation will be to raise sufficient funds to ensure that the US will be the largest promoter of international travel to its shores in the world.

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