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Discover America Partnership

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The Discover America Partnership media center includes links to releases, testimony and other background information. For more information, to speak with a partnership official, or for b-roll footage, please contact:

Heather Epkins
Director of Communications

Discover America Partnership
1100 New York Avenue, NW Suite 450
Washington, DC 20005
202-408-2172

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Power of Travel (GMI Research, 2005)

  • Those who have visited the U.S. are 42 percent more likely to have a favorable opinion of the U.S.
  • Of those that haven't visited the U.S., only 38 percent hold a favorable opinion of the country; 54 percent of those that have visited have a favorable opinion of America (16 point increase represents a 42 percent difference)
  • The power of travel also increases favorability toward Americans: 72 percent of those that have visited hold a favorable view of Americans versus only 61 percent who haven't visited