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The U.S. Travel Association today released its report on the group travel segment, U.S. Group Travel Report: Strength Beneath the Surface, revealing a resilient and evolving group travel sector poised for renewed growth despite a challenging 2025.

“While the bill passed today restores funding certainty for much of DHS, there are no real winners in a shutdown. More than 1,100 TSA officers have already left the workforce, morale has been undermined, and with just weeks until the World Cup, our preparedness has taken a step backward. We emerge from this disruption weaker, not stronger."

“Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to expire in days, and the House is preparing to leave town without fixing a crisis of its own making..."

Let's say the quiet part out loud: the campaign by civil society organizations to discourage World Cup travel isn't about protecting visitors. It's about using the livelihoods of American workers and businesses as leverage to influence policies they oppose.

The travel industry joined together in Washington, D.C. for U.S. Travel’s Destination Capitol Hill, the travel industry’s premier legislative fly-in event.

U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman issued the following statement on Congress’s opportunity to fix TSA funding through reconciliation: