---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 4351"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "4351"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/4351"
units:
  - "Chapter 44A — Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience"
---

# §4351. Purposes


The purposes of this chapter are—

- (1) to enhance and integrate [Native American](/usc/25/5802.md?p=5) tourism—
  - (A) to empower [Native American](/usc/25/5802.md?p=5) communities; and
  - (B) to advance the National Travel and Tourism Strategy;
- (2) to increase coordination and collaboration between Federal tourism assets to support [Native American](/usc/25/5802.md?p=5) tourism and bolster recreational travel and tourism;
- (3) to expand heritage and cultural tourism opportunities in the United States to spur economic development, create jobs, and increase tourism revenues;
- (4) to enhance and improve self-determination and [self-governance](/usc/25/5361.md?p=11) capabilities in the [Native American](/usc/25/5802.md?p=5) community and to promote greater self-sufficiency;
- (5) to encourage [Indian tribes](/usc/25/81.md?p=a-2), [tribal organizations](/usc/25/2902.md?p=5), and [Native Hawaiian organizations](/usc/25/4352.md?p=3) to engage more fully in [Native American](/usc/25/5802.md?p=5) tourism activities to increase visitation to rural and remote areas in the United States that are too difficult to access or are unknown to domestic travelers and international tourists;
- (6) to provide grants, loans, and technical assistance to [Indian tribes](/usc/25/81.md?p=a-2), [tribal organizations](/usc/25/2902.md?p=5), and [Native Hawaiian organizations](/usc/25/4352.md?p=3) that will—
  - (A) spur important infrastructure development;
  - (B) increase tourism capacity; and
  - (C) elevate living standards in [Native American](/usc/25/5802.md?p=5) communities; and
- (7) to support the development of technologically innovative [projects](/usc/25/5611.md?p=2) that will incorporate recreational travel and tourism information and data from Federal assets to improve the visitor experience.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–221, § 2, Sept. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 847.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 114–221, § 1, Sept. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 847, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act’ or the ‘NATIVE Act’.”