The administration’s new travel restrictions from West African nations hit with Ebola won immediate praise from the travel industry, which said the rules will keep sick people out of America without abandoning those countries with an outright flight ban.
U.S. Travel Association President Roger Dow called the new Homeland Security plan “a substantive step in addressing an issue the public has understandably expressed a great deal of concern about, while avoiding a policy overreaction with harmful unintended consequences.”
Political pressure has been building for a flight ban, but the administration argued that it not only wouldn’t work but could hurt the economies of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Dow said the new plan strikes a good balance:
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