Worldwide Waste: How the Government is Using and Losing Your Money Abroad - Part VI: Foreign Tourism Promotion
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2017-02-15
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10 pages
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Additional, Minority, Dissenting Views
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Yes
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Brief Executive Summary
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.