8 Amendments of Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN related to 2014/2241(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that cultural tourism has an important role in the European economy as it creates millions of jobs and enhances social cohesion; stresses, in this regard, that safeguarding tangible and intangible cultural heritage, in its diverse manifestations, and promoting cultural creativity is essential and should be among our top priorities;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Emphasizes that cultural tourism can educate local communities and can influence policy-making; points out that cultural tourism is an essential part of many national and regional economies and an important factor for cultural exchange and development; reiterates that tourism should be based on strategies that protect and strengthen both natural and cultural diversities, preserve local cultures, traditions, heritage and environment;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the potential of a digital single market to expand, modernize and develop cultural tourism, and to promote and support all tourism services and providers; calls for further development of appropriate infrastructures, and encourages wider use of already existing ones, in order to facilitate the use of digital tools in tourism;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recalls that investing in human capital is essential for the quality of tourism services and it is a precondition for sustainable and competitive growth; stresses the importance of providing better targeted training policies in order to ensure the presence of well qualified, service oriented, multilingual personnel;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines the importance to foster close collaboration and cooperation between culture and tourism in order to support responsible, culturally aware, inclusive and sustainable tourism that contribute to the socio-economic development of host communities, promote cross-cultural exchanges and multicultural understanding;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points out that host communities and indigenous peoples should be involved in different policies for the identification, promotion, protection, conservation, management, presentation and interpretation of their heritage resources, cultural practices and contemporary cultural expressions, in the context of tourism;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Stresses the potential of cultural tourism for poverty alleviation; calls, in this regard, for fostering the countries' creative industries and rural tourism in order to promote Europe's extraordinary cultural wealth and fight poverty and unemployment;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Asks the Commission and the Member States to implement the action to protect endangered monuments and sites in Europe in order to safeguard and promote cultural heritage and therefore encourage cultural tourism;