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Activities of Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL related to 2014/2241(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

New challenges and concepts for the promotion of tourism in Europe (A8-0258/2015 - Isabella De Monte) ES
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2014/2241(INI)

Amendments (7)

Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that cultural tourism has an important role in the European economy as it creates millions of jobs and enhances social cohesion; stresses, in this regard, that safeguarding tangible and intangible cultural heritage, in its diverse manifestations, and promoting cultural creativity is essential and should be among our top priorities;
2015/05/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Emphasizes that cultural tourism can educate local communities and can influence policy-making; points out that cultural tourism is an essential part of many national and regional economies and an important factor for cultural exchange and development; reiterates that tourism should be based on strategies that protect and strengthen both natural and cultural diversities, preserve local cultures, traditions, heritage and environment;
2015/05/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the potential of a digital single market to expand, modernize and develop cultural tourism, and to promote and support all tourism services and providers; calls for further development of appropriate infrastructures, and encourages wider use of already existing ones, in order to facilitate the use of digital tools in tourism;
2015/05/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recalls that investing in human capital is essential for the quality of tourism services and it is a precondition for sustainable and competitive growth; stresses the importance of providing better targeted training policies in order to ensure the presence of well qualified, service oriented, multilingual personnel;
2015/05/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines the importance to foster close collaboration and cooperation between culture and tourism in order to support responsible, culturally aware, inclusive and sustainable tourism that contribute to the socio-economic development of host communities, promote cross-cultural exchanges and multicultural understanding;
2015/05/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Stresses the potential of cultural tourism for poverty alleviation; calls, in this regard, for fostering the countries' creative industries and rural tourism in order to promote Europe's extraordinary cultural wealth and fight poverty and unemployment;
2015/05/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Asks the Commission and the Member States to implement the action to protect endangered monuments and sites in Europe in order to safeguard and promote cultural heritage and therefore encourage cultural tourism;
2015/05/19
Committee: CULT