The United States Travel and Tourism Administration (USTTA) operated the country's official travel and tourism offices worldwide. It was established in 1981 by the

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, succeeding the United States Travel Service in its role of promoting travel to the United States. The U.S. Travel Service was created by the United States Secretary of Commerce on July 1, 1961, pursuant to the International Travel Act of 1961 (75 Stat. 129; 22 U.S.C. 2121 note) after President

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signed

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Bill 610 on June 29, 1961. It was created to address a deficit in tourism in the United States. In 1996, the U.S. government decided that it would no longer need such and closed all offices. Since, there are some

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s in countries where many U.S. tourism companies have offices.

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* * Tourism agencies Travel and Tourism Tourism in the United States {{US-org-stub

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