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"Mr President, in order to make sound decisions in any industry whatever, we need to be armed with as much in the way of information and statistics as possible and to ensure that regions are spending their money properly in developing a product that has such huge potential.
I welcome this report. Statistics are absolutely vital. However, they are useless if we cannot compare them, and this report by Brian Simpson goes a considerable way towards ensuring that the information which is now being collected, and will be collected in the future, is easily accessible and can easily be used positively for the benefit of the industry itself.
I welcome the work that Mr Simpson has done and, as he has said, he has the unanimous support of the committee and quite a number of committee members are here now. I also share his concern about the quantity of the delegated acts the Commission wants to have. I would much rather see changes to the fundamentals of this framework decided under ordinary legislative procedures. We are MEPs from the different member countries, we have our finger on the pulse, we know exactly what the situation is in our Member States and, without in any way showing disrespect to the Commission, I would say that we are the people who ultimately know what the product is and what the potential is.
Until 2004, we had regional development, transport and tourism all under the one heading. In 2004, those areas were divided between committees, and we now have transport and tourism in one and regional development in another.
As far as transport and tourism are concerned, tourism is still very much the Cinderella. It is an area of huge potential, an area that can develop into something even greater than we are talking about. Our colleague over here mentioned 4% of GDP. But if you look at it, you see, for example, that Europe is the number one destination in the world, accounting for 40% of global arrivals in 2008. Tourism represents 9.7 million jobs every year.
So what we are talking about here is a mosaic of different countries, different cultures, with huge potential. We have only dipped our toe in the water; we have only started to tap its potential and we need to drive forward from here. Above all else, if we are to drive forward and develop tourism, we need the kind of report that Brian Simpson has produced and we need to work on it."@en1
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