Travel execs cite concerns overseas visitors don't feel welcome

(AP) -- Mickey Mouse has a bone to pick with Uncle Sam.

Some U.S. travel executives -- including those who run Disneyland and Walt Disney World -- think the government needs to do more to improve the country's image with foreign tourists who increasingly are choosing other places for their vacations.

Tourism officials ascribe the decline partly to anti-Americanism that arose after the country launched military action in Afghanistan and Iraq and to the "hassle factor" associated with new visa application and airport security procedures.

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