9 Amendments of Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU related to 2010/2206(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that education-related travel is becoming increasingly popular, therefore calls on the Member States, local and regional authorities to bsupport such forms of tourism by being more flexible and adapting to new types of consumers due to demographic change and in order to take into account new forms of tourism;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
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2. Underlines the importance of enhancing the quality of education in the field of tourism through the use of programmes such as Leonardo da Vinci mobility actions and Erasmus for entrepreneurs;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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3. Underlines the need to boost European and international exchanges of students from vocational schools in the field of tourism so that they can learn fromand exchange best practice andwhile improveing their language skills;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
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4. Points out the merits of a ‘dual’ education system and the importance of combining learning in a business with learning at a vocational school, thereby enhancing both theoretical and practical skills;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
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5. Reiterates that the development of sustainable forms of tourism would provide local and regional economies with a lasting source of income and a means of promoting stable employment, while at the same time making it possible to safeguard and enhance the landscape and the cultural, historical and social heritage of every region;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
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6. Welcomes the Commission proposal to group actions promoting tourism under four priorities; considers, however, that the development of a new political framework for tourism in Europe requires an integrated approach and efficient coordination of Community, national, regional and local policies with a direct or indirect impact on tourism, in keeping with the principle of subsidiarity; urges the Member States to involve relevant regional and local authorities from the very early stages of negotiations;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
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7. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the local and regional authorities to encourage and support the development of networks and the creation of partnerships for the exchange of good practice; hopes thatunderlines the need for concrete initiatives willto be undertaken in support of innovation and the development of new information technologies, and that access will besimplification of rules in order to facilitated for stakeholders in the tourist industry, and particularly small– and medium–sized enterprises, toaccess the relevant financial instruments;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
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9. Calls for greater emphasis to be placed on quality of employment in the tourism sector, with a focus on training with a high language and technology content, on support for entrepreneurship among women and young people, on labour force mobility thanks to various Community programmes and on combating undeclared work; encourages the Member States, regional and local authorities to make use of the vocational training tools offered by the European Social Fund and by other Community and national instruments;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
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10. Calls on the Member States to simplify the rules and reduce administrative burden in order to make optimum use of the European financial instruments available for the current financial programming period, in order to and develop the competitiveness of the tourism sector and of tourist destinations; hopes that, as part of the cohesion policy review, the role of tourism as a means of redressing the social, economic and territorial balance will be upgraded; hopes that every form of funding the EU provides for tourism will be tied to the provision of services of excellent standard and quality.