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"Mr President, as we all know, tourism can contribute to the achievement of the Lisbon Objectives. Europe is the world's favourite tourist destination, but with the emergence of new competitors, as has already been mentioned, we can maintain this situation only by creating better tourist facilities, higher quality services and information, and a high level of consumer protection and safety. This requires cooperation between the public and private sectors.
Coming from a new Member State, I emphasise that all of us benefit from enlargement in the field of tourism, so future enlargements would give a further boost to the sector's economic weight and its importance to European growth. As Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, I am sure that the growth of tourism will lead to more opportunities, prospects and appropriate working conditions for female employees, who represent the majority of the sector's workers, as well as businesswomen in tourism and, most importantly, to more jobs for women.
In developing tourism, we must not forget the socially vulnerable groups and people with disabilities, representing more than 10 million Europeans. I welcome the initiative to make tourist and leisure establishments, facilities, services and itineraries accessible to people with reduced mobility and disability.
I stress that this is a great challenge for the new Member States, which will have to overcome huge disadvantages in this sector. Tourism still does not receive the attention it should in the EU. There is no tourism website on the EU portal and Eurostat publishes only a few tourism statistics. I therefore recommend that we have a 'European Year of Tourism', which would be accompanied by a wide range of events and programmes to highlight the social and economic importance of tourism. Experience of Member States' practices in this area is important and increased cooperation between Member States on best practice could be useful."@en1
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