American Music Tourism Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The American Music Tourism Act of 2025 expands the Commerce Department's travel-promotion responsibilities under the Visit America Act. It requires the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism to identify locations and events in the United States that are important to music tourism and to facilitate and promote domestic travel to those locations and events. It rewrites the international travel subsection so music tourism is promoted alongside large meetings, conferences, exhibitions, rural cultural-heritage destinations, ecological tourism, sports events, and recreation events. The bill also requires a report one year after enactment and every two years after that on activities, findings, achievements, and vulnerabilities related to the Visit America Act's domestic and international travel goals. Finally, it defines music tourism as travel to historic or modern music-related attractions, including museums, studios, venues, festivals, concerts, live performances, and music-related special events.
Who Benefits and How
Music venues, music festivals, recording studios, music museums, and local music attractions benefit because federal tourism promotion would explicitly include their locations and events. Rural destinations with music heritage benefit because the amended international-travel language emphasizes culturally rich destinations and music tourism together. State and local tourism offices benefit from a federal partner identifying and promoting music-related travel opportunities. Hotels, restaurants, transportation providers, and other travel businesses near music events benefit from increased domestic and international visitor demand.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism must identify music-tourism locations and events, integrate them into domestic and international promotion, coordinate with relevant federal agencies, and submit recurring reports. Commerce Department tourism staff must track activities, findings, achievements, and vulnerabilities across the Visit America Act goals. Congressional committees must receive and review biennial reports. Federal travel-promotion resources may be spread across an additional named tourism category.
Key Provisions
- Adds music-tourism locations and events to the Assistant Secretary's domestic travel and tourism responsibilities.
- Requires international travel promotion to include music-tourism locations and events in the United States.
- Requires the Assistant Secretary to coordinate with relevant federal agencies on international business and leisure travel promotion.
- Requires a report one year after enactment and every two years afterward on travel-promotion activities, achievements, findings, and vulnerabilities.
- Defines music tourism to include travel to music attractions, museums, studios, venues, festivals, concerts, live performances, and music-related special events.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Adds music tourism to the Visit America Act by requiring the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism to identify and promote U.S. music-related locations and events for domestic and international travel, report every two years on travel goals and vulnerabilities, and define music tourism to include travel to music attractions, museums, studios, venues, festivals, concerts, live performances, and special events.
Key Policy Areas
Tourism, Commerce, Arts and Culture
Primary Purpose
Adds music tourism to the Visit America Act by requiring the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism to identify and promote U.S. music-related locations and events for domestic and international travel, report every two years on travel goals and vulnerabilities, and define music tourism to include travel to music attractions, museums, studios, venues, festivals, concerts, live performances, and special events.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Music venues
- Music festivals
- Recording studios
- Music museums
- Rural music-heritage destinations
- State tourism offices
- Local tourism offices
- Travel businesses near music events
Identified Costs
- Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism
- Commerce Department tourism staff
- Congressional oversight committees
- Federal travel-promotion programs
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and placed on the calendar
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1635-1637)
Mr. Bilirakis moved to suspend the rules and pass the …
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism, Commerce Department tourism staff
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "assistant_secretary"
- → Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Travel to music-related attractions such as museums, studios, venues, festivals, concerts, live performances, or special events.
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