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Legislature restores travel-approval oversight for Guam Visitors Bureau, adds reporting requirements
Summary
The Guam Legislature advanced a bill returning travel-approval authority to the Guam Visitors Bureau board and adopted an amendment requiring the GVB general manager to file a written travel report with KPIs, participants and costs within five working days of the next board meeting.
Senator Rouhani, sponsor of bill 279-38 COR, told colleagues the measure "simply returns travel authorization authority back to the board of directors," saying the change restores historical oversight and aims to hold the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) accountable for use of public funds.
The bill, as amended on the floor, restores the board's authority to approve travel that promotes tourism, limits funded travel to certain participants paid from the Tourist Attraction Fund, and requires that "within five working days following the next duly convened meeting of the board of directors after completion of such travel, the Guam…
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