Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-13-Speech-1-079"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-05-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European tourism2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020513.7.1-079"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-05-13-Speech-1-0802
lpv:speaker	lp:Brian Simpson2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, first of all I should like to thank our rapporteur, Mrs Torres Marques, not only for her work on this report, but also for her dedication to the tourism cause in this Parliament, which goes back some years now. I believe we are faced with a contradiction – a contradiction that emerges clearly as Mr Harbour speaks on behalf of Mr Bradbourn, speaking on behalf of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy in this field of tourism. I believe we need EU competence in the field of tourism, not only to enable tourism to develop in terms of staff and standards and give us a coherent and coordinated tourism policy, but also – and I thought the Conservative Group would have really taken this to their bosom – because the present scenario is holding back profit generation and the opportunities to make money in that sector. Tourism contributes 5% of the EU's GDP. It employs thousands of people in the Member States and yet we have no EU competence. We are faced at this moment with numerous – I do not know how many exactly – tourism policies reflecting national, regional and even local priorities that differ from each other. It appears that we have a tourism ship that is sailing the seas with nobody on the bridge to direct it or to control it. That is not the fault of the Commission or this Parliament. The fault lies squarely with the Member State governments. Even within national boundaries, tourism suffers from this effect of other interests – parochial interests. We really need to take the opportunity presented by Mrs Torres Marques to get to grips with this problem and to produce for the European Union a coherent tourism policy that will work and be of benefit to the people of Europe."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-30--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Simpson (PSE )."1

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