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"Mr President, I should first of all like to congratulate Mr Fidanza for his report, which not only champions competitive, innovative tourism, but also ethical, sustainable tourism.
I would like to thank him for heeding our demands on the special needs of outermost regions.
I should also like to congratulate the Vice-President of the Commission, Mr Tajani, for his willingness to make up for lost time in this sector. The Lisbon Treaty provided a much needed and much celebrated legal basis, but now it is time to secure the necessary funding.
I am particularly pleased at the report’s acknowledgement that the superb lessons we drew from the Calypso social tourism programme must be put to work in order to unlock the sector’s seasonality. We need to stimulate tourism for all Europeans, whichever their social or financial situation.
The agreements with Latin America are also good news. I wish to express my support for your policies in this area, which will hopefully mean tourists from those countries will be granted visas and helped in other ways.
I think specialisation is particularly useful in improving tourism quality: heritage tourism, health and spa tourism, gastronomic tourism, sports tourism, rural tourism, and even shopping tourism.
It is also crucial, in my opinion, to make further progress in the area of accessibility for tourists with reduced mobility, improve tourists’ rights, and implement, in collaboration with management and labour, a strategy for excellence in training and employment conditions for all industry workers.
We need good professionals because they are the cornerstone of Europe’s leadership in this sector.
However, as I have already said, all this requires funding. You will definitely have our support from now on in the debate on financial perspectives. I therefore call on you, Mr Tajani, to be as ambitious as the tourist industry merits. We will support you."@en1
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