YourVoice.Now Summary
Corporate BenefitsTransparency & AccountabilityTells the federal tourism office to find and promote U.S. music destinations — no money attached.
Corporate Benefits
The travel and tourism office would have to find U.S. music museums, studios, venues and festivals, then promote travel to them at home and abroad. The bill adds a legal definition of music tourism that covers all of these.
Today the office's job is to draw international business travel. The bill widens that to leisure travel as well, so hotels, attractions and tour operators fall inside the mandate.
The office already helps put on U.S. sports and recreation events. The bill adds a duty to promote international travel to those events, which the law does not require today.
Transparency & Accountability
Within a year of enactment, and every two years after, the office would have to tell two congressional committees what it did, what it found, what it achieved, and what its weak spots are. No current law makes it report on its own goals.
More about this bill
Most people would notice no change in daily life from this bill. It gives the federal travel and tourism office a new job. The office would find U.S. places and events that draw music fans. It would then promote them to travelers at home and abroad. The office would also court foreign leisure travelers, not just business travelers. It would promote trips to U.S. sports and recreation events too. Every two years it would report to Congress on how it is doing. No money is set aside for any of this. Towns with music venues, festivals, or museums could see more visitors over time.
Congressional Summary
American Music Tourism Act of 2025 This bill directs the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) of the Department of Commerce to promote tourism to music-related and sports attractions. The bill requires NTTO to promote domestic and international travel and tourism to U.S. music festivals, concert venues, and other music-related attractions and locations. The bill also expands NTTO's current mandate to facilitate sports and recreation events and activities to include the promotion of international travel and tourism to such activities in the United States. NTTO must report its activities and findings to Congress within one year after the bill's enactment and, thereafter, every two years.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Passed House and Senate
- Action Date
- 2026-09-15
- Date Added
- 2026-09-09
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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