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Worldwide Waste: How the Government is Using and Losing Your Money Abroad - Part VI: Foreign Tourism Promotion
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management
Abstract
Chairman Rand Paul of the Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs issued a series of waste reports of American foreign expenditure. This is part 6 of 7 cataloging over $3 billion in wasteful spending. This specific volume reports on foreign tourism including $450k in Turkmenistan youth hospitality education, ~$177k in Russian ecotourism, ~$5.4 million in Armenian tourism, ~$984k in Bosnian/Herzegovinian hiking trails, $950k for online courses in sustainable tourism, $98 million in Jordanian tourism, ~$6.6 million in Kyrgyzstan tourism, ~$2 million in Belarus Agro Ecotourism, ~4.4 million in Egyptian tourism, and $6 million in Albanian tourism.
Date
2017-02-15
Document Type
Senate Majority Staff Report
Serial Number
Document Length
10 pages
Congress
115
Relation
DOI
Keywords
Staff Reports
PAP Major Code
20: Government Operations
PAP Minor Code
2002: Government Efficiency, General Regulatory Policy and Bureaucratic Oversight