25 U.S.C. § 4351 — Purposes

The purposes are—

(1) to strengthen and combine Native American tourism efforts by (A) empowering Native American communities and (B) advancing the National Travel and Tourism Strategy;

(2) to improve coordination and cooperation among Federal tourism resources that support Native American tourism and recreational travel;

(3) to expand heritage and cultural tourism opportunities in the United States to promote economic development, create jobs, and increase tourism revenue;

(4) to improve self-determination and self-governance in Native American communities and promote greater self-sufficiency;

(5) to encourage Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations to participate more fully in tourism and increase visits to rural and remote United States areas that are hard to reach or unknown to domestic and international travelers;

(6) to provide grants, loans, and technical help to those tribes and organizations to (A) promote needed infrastructure, (B) increase tourism capacity, and (C) raise living standards in Native American communities; and

(7) to support technology projects that use recreational-travel and tourism information and data from Federal resources to improve visitors' experiences.