12 Amendments of Seán KELLY related to 2010/2206(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises that tourism has a tangible impact on the economic, social and territorial cohesion of all the Member States; stresses also that tourism represents the main resource of some EU regions that are lagging behind economically, and that it has a direct impact on growth in other sectors, also believes that measures should be taken to avoid tourist concentration in popular areas and so boost peripheral regions;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that Europe's cultural heritage and regional and linguistic diversity represent a significant comparative advantage in the global tourism marketplace. Calls for these factors to be given due recognition in economic analyses of the tourism sector, especially in the context of allocating resources to maintain and upgrade destinations of cultural significance;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that Europe's cultural heritage and linguistic diversity represent a significant comparative advantage in the global tourism marketplace. Calls for these factors to be given due recognition in economic analyses of the tourism sector, especially in the context of allocating resources to maintain and upgrade destinations of cultural significance;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that social, economic and environmental sustainability are a prerequisite for developing and maintaining all tourism activity; urges the Commission to develop a ‘European label’ in order to create a profile for products and services of excellence andwelcomes the development of the 'European Heritage Label', which will raise the profile of particular sites of historic and cultural importance in Europe and will serve at the same time to enhance Europe's image worldwide;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers such initiatives as the ‘European Capital of Culture’, the ‘European Heritage Label’ and the ‘Iron Curtain Trail’ to be necessary in promoting European heritage, contemporary creativity and sustainability in cultural tourism; welcomes programmes such as EDEN and NECSTouR due to their potential for boosting economic development; considers also that there are significant synergies to be achieved with the Council of Europe 'European Cultural Routes';
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the role of sport in promoting tourism and welcomes initiatives such as the 'Watersports in the Atlantic Area' project. Recalls that sport is a cultural as well as an activity-based pursuit and which can attract tourists to peripheral regions of Europe;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Highlights the role of sport in promoting tourism and welcomes initiatives such as the 'Watersports in the Atlantic Area' project; recalls that sport is a cultural as well as an activity-based pursuit and which can attract tourists to peripheral regions of Europe;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines the structural problem of seasonality in the European tourism sector; highlights the role of cultural and educational tourism in lengthening tourist seasons and diminishing the negative socio-economic effects of seasonality. Welcomes to that effect the Commission's Calypso Preparatory Action in promoting social tourism and diminishing seasonality.
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the local and regional authorities to encourage and support the development of networks and the creation of partnerships for the exchange of good practice; hopurges that concrete initiatives will be undertaken in support of innovation and the development of new information technologies, and that access will be facilitated for stakeholders in the tourist industry, and particularly small– and medium–sized enterprises, to the relevant financial instruments;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. CNotes that seasonality has a particularly negative effect on geographically remote regions and therefore considers it necessary to counterbalance the effects of seasonal tourism by diversifying tourism, including via support for new forms of tourism such as health tourism, especially spa tourism, sporting tourism, adventure tourism and socially- responsible tourism, in particular when aimed at people with reduced mobility, young people and the elderly, who constitute a market with huge growth potential, also by promoting all-year cultural routes to aid the tourist industry during non-peak times; to that effect, welcomes the development of the CALYPSO Preparatory Action which seeks to address these challenges;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for greater emphasis to be placed on quality of employment in the tourism sector, with a focus on training with a high language and technology content, on support for entrepreneurship among women and young people, on labour force mobility thanks to various Community programmes and on combating undeclared work and preventing exploitation; encourages the Member States and local authorities to make use of the vocational training tools offered by the European Social Fund and by other Community and national instruments;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to make optimum use of the European financial instruments available for the current financial programming period, in order to develop the competitiveness of the tourism sector and of tourist destinations; hopurges that, as part of the cohesion policy review and in light of the new Treaty competence for tourism, the role of tourism as a means of redressing the social, economic and territorial balance will be upgraded; hopes that every form of funding the EU provides for tourism will be tied to the provision of competitive services of excellent standard and quality.