(3) promoting sports and recreation events and 
activities, which shall be hosted in the United 
States. 
(f) RECOVERY STRATEGY.— 
(1) INITIAL RECOVERY STRATEGY.—Not later 
than 1 year after amounts are appropriated to ac-
complish the purposes of this section, the Assistant 
Secretary, in consultation with public and private 
stakeholders identified in subsection (a)(3) and pub-
lic health officials, shall develop and implement a 
COVID–19 public health emergency recovery strat-
egy to assist the United States travel and tourism 
industry to quickly recover from the pandemic. 
(2) FUTURE
RECOVERY
STRATEGIES.—After 
assisting in the implementation of the strategy de-
veloped pursuant to paragraph (1), the Assistant 
Secretary, in consultation with appropriate public 
and private stakeholders, shall develop additional re-
covery strategies for the travel and tourism industry 
in anticipation of other unforeseen catastrophic 
events that would significantly affect the travel and 
tourism industry, such as hurricanes, floods, 
tsunamis, 
tornadoes, 
terrorist 
attacks, 
and 
pandemics. 
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(3) COST-BENEFIT
ANALYSIS.—In developing 
the COVID–19 public health emergency recovery 
strategy under paragraph (1) and additional recov-
ery strategies for the travel and tourism industry 
under paragraph (2), the Assistant Secretary shall 
conduct cost-benefit analyses that take into account 
the health and economic effects of public health 
mitigation measures on the travel and tourism in-
dustry. 
(g) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) ASSISTANT
SECRETARY.—The Assistant 
Secretary shall produce an annual forecasting report 
on the travel and tourism industry, to the extent 
feasible, which shall include current and antici-
pated— 
(A) domestic employment needs; 
(B) international inbound volume and 
spending, taking into account the lasting effects 
of the COVID–19 public health emergency and 
the impact of the recovery strategy implemented 
pursuant to subsection (f)(1); and 
(C) domestic volume and spending, includ-
ing Federal and State public land travel and 
tourism data. 
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(2) BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS.—The Di-
rector of the Bureau of Economic Analysis should 
annually update, to the extent feasible, the Travel 
and Tourism Satellite Accounts, including— 
(A) State level travel and tourism spending 
data; 
(B) travel and tourism workforce data for 
full-time and part-time employment; and 
(C) Federal and State public lands spend-
ing data. 
(3) NATIONAL
TRAVEL
AND
TOURISM
OF-
FICE.—The Director of the National Travel and 
Tourism Office— 
(A) in partnership with the Bureau of Eco-
nomic Analysis, shall report international ar-
rival and spending data on a regular monthly 
schedule, which shall be made available to the 
Travel and Tourism Advisory Board and to the 
public through a publicly available website; and 
(B) shall include questions in the Survey 
of International Air Travelers regarding wait- 
times, visits to public lands, and State data, to 
the extent applicable. 
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