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MARYLAND Travel Agency Industry At A Glance RETAIL LOCATIONS FULL TIME JOBS ECONOMIC IMPACT 276 1,595 $55M TRAVEL ADVISORS ARE ECONOMIC DRIVERS Travel advisors – online, “brick and mortar” and many hybrid business models in between – play a critical role in the broader travel and tourism industry. TRAVEL ADVISORS ARE IN YOUR COMMUNITY The travel agency industry in the United States is a vital part of the transportation infrastructure. While the physical elements of travel include planes, trains, cars, hotels, cruises and tours, it is the travel advisor that makes it all happen. Travel advisors vary in size from the smallest home-based agent to storefront agencies in every state and Congressional district to the large travel management companies such as Carlson Wagonlit to household-name online agencies like Expedia. Together, they account for an annual payroll output of $5.5B and annual revenues of $17.7B. MARYLAND ASTA Agencies In Your District U.S. REPRESENTATIVES ASTA MEMBERS 1 Andy Harris (R) 11 2 Dutch Ruppersberger (D) 5 3 John Sarbanes (D) 6 4 Anthony G. Brown (D) 44 5 Steny Hoyer (D) 7 6 David Trone (D) 9 7 Kweisi Mfume (D) 21 8 Jamie Raskin (D) 21 U.S. SENATORS ASTA MEMBERS Ben Cardin (D) 124 Chris Van Hollen (D) 124 THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRAVEL ADVISORS Rebranded in 2018 as the American Society of Travel Advisors, ASTA is the leading global advocate for travel advisors, the travel industry and the traveling public. Its members represent 80 percent of all travel sold in the United States through the travel agency distribution channel. Together with hundreds of internationally-based members, ASTA’s history of industry advocacy traces back to its founding in 1931 when it launched with the mission to facilitate the business of selling travel through effective representation, shared knowledge and the enhancement of professionalism. FOR MORE INFORMATION: ASTA.org Sources: Airlines Reporting Corporation, U.S. Census Bureau, PhocusWright Travel Agency Landscape, Travel Weekly Power List, Company Financial Reports, MMGY’s Portrait of U.S. Travelers, TNS Global’s TravelsAmerica. .

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FORMER MEMBERS H 1971–2007 �� Kweisi Mfume 1948– UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE H 1987–1996 DEMOCRAT FROM MARYLAND n epiphany in his mid-20s called Frizzell Gray away stress and frustration, Gray quit his jobs. He hung out A from the streets of Baltimore and into politics under on street corners, participated in illegal gambling, joined a new name: Kweisi Mfume, which means “conquering a gang, and fathered five sons (Ronald, Donald, Kevin, son of kings” in a West African dialect. “Frizzell Gray had Keith, and Michael) with four different women. In the lived and died. From his spirit was born a new person,” summer of 1972, Gray saw a vision of his mother’s face, Mfume later wrote.1 An admirer of civil rights leader Dr. convincing him to leave his life on the streets.5 Earning Martin Luther King, Jr., Mfume followed in his footsteps, a high school equivalency degree, Gray changed his becoming a well-known voice on Baltimore-area radio, the name to symbolize his transformation. He adopted the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and name Kweisi Mfume at the suggestion of an aunt who the leader of one of the country’s oldest advocacy groups had traveled through Ghana. An earlier encounter with for African Americans, the National Association for the future Baltimore-area Representative Parren Mitchell, who Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). challenged Mfume to help solve the problems of poverty Kweisi Mfume, formerly named Frizzell Gray, was and violence, profoundly affected the troubled young born on October 24, 1948, in Turners Station, Maryland, man.6 “I can’t explain it, but a feeling just came over me a small town 10 miles south of Baltimore.
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