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"The report demonstrates the importance of tourism to the European economy, being responsible for 10% of gross domestic product and 12% of all employment in the Member States as a whole. It is the third most important socio-economic activity in the EU, and is a sector comprising mainly micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The rapporteur advocates an integrated tourism strategy ‘in full compliance with the principle of subsidiarity’.
The report includes positive aspects that could help increase business activities in the sector, such as the collation and dissemination of good practices, advocating support for certain specific sectors like environmental and rural tourism, and advocating the diversification of tourism activities, which are likely to make tourism less seasonal. However, we cannot, in fact, ignore the general situation, which currently limits tourism activity: in other words, a profound economic and social crisis, which could be exacerbated in the near future, particularly in countries like Portugal. This crisis is limiting all economic activity – tourism, in particular – causing thousands of SMEs to go out of business.
What is therefore required, above all, is a profound change to current economic policy."@en1
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