Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-04-04-Speech-1-110-000"
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"en.20110404.16.1-110-000"2
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"Tourism is an important economic activity of the Union, with great potential for contributing to the creation of jobs and economic growth. With about 1.8 million small and medium-sized enterprises, the estimated contribution of the tourism industry to European GDP in the EU is more than 5%. The system of tourism statistics is currently regulated by Directive 95/57/EC on the collection of statistical data in this sector. I believe that statistics are not only helpful for monitoring specific policies for tourism, but may be useful in the broader context of regional policy and sustainable development. In recent decades, the sector has been facing major challenges such as increasing global competition, demographic trends, environmental constraints, the seasonal distribution of tourist movements and the increasingly frequent use of new information and communication technologies by customers. In acknowledging the crucial role of statistics in the development of more effective tourism policies at European, national, regional and local level, I believe that the overall objective should be to strengthen the EU tourism sector through action coordinated at Union level to complement the efforts of individual Member States"@en1
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