Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-09-26-Speech-1-121-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Spyros Danellis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; S&D (2009-10-08--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2009-10-21--2012-03-28)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-10-19--2013-06-30)3 substitute; TRAN (2010-01-18--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Panhellenic Socialist Movement (2009-10-08--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AGRI (2009-10-19--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"− Mr President, Commissioner, the tourism industry in Europe is in decline and needs new momentum. It faces challenges which require specific, new answers and needs to make efforts to adjust. In this unprecedented economic crisis in Europe, tourism is the best economic activity for creating new jobs, securing income for local communities and hence boosting regional development, and promoting the competitiveness of a huge range of undertakings. If we are to make the best possible use of this potential, we need measures and policies to coordinate, harmonise and improve the quality of the European tourism product. Thus, players in the European tourism industry need to join forces and work on a standard policy framework which takes account of the Union’s new priorities. Developing and promoting diversified forms of tourism may be the only effective response to the distortions, problems and deterioration to which the current model of undifferentiated mass tourism is leading. Support for actions, with the necessary funding, to promote diversified tourism in the Union, addressing seasonal fluctuations in tourist activity, utilising information and communication technologies, using innovation to strengthen small and medium-sized enterprises, mitigating the accessibility problems of island and mountain areas, taking social tourism – tourism for all – initiatives, introducing the principles of interregionality and complementarity, improving the standard of services provided, considering the feasibility of a charter of tourists’ rights and responsibilities and simplifying tourist visa procedures, especially for the BRIC group of countries, are just some of the issues addressed in this report. The European Parliament report sets out an ambitious framework to make European tourism a more competitive, modern, viable and responsible industry. It also seeks to restore a healthy relationship between tourist development and the environment. Tapping the diversity, multifacetedness and multiculturalism of the European tourism product will offer maximum growth for any form of thematic tourism and, without doubt, will lend added European value to the Member States’ tourism policies. We call on the European Commission to submit an integrated strategy by the end of 2012 for implementing the actions proposed in this report."@en1
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