7 Amendments of Marit PAULSEN related to 2010/2206(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3a (new)
Paragraph 3a (new)
3a. Believes that future rural and regional development programmes should effectively support the tourism sector. Special attention should be given to the promotion of knowledge transfer and cross-border exchanges of best practice, building upon the work of existing European networks such as NECSTouR;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4a (new)
Paragraph 4a (new)
4a. Underlines that tourism activities must always respect the landscape and the environment. The objective – as stated in the European Landscape Convention – should be a balanced and harmonious relationship between social needs, economic activity and the environment;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6a (new)
Paragraph 6a (new)
6a. Considers that there is a need to improve farmers’ marketing capacity and their access to local markets, thus enabling the catering sector to buy the local produce that they need more easily;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6a (new)
Paragraph 6a (new)
6a. Emphasises that, since food gives an understanding of local cultures and traditions, food tourism could contribute to a feeling of affinity within Europe;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recognises the importance of the ‘ICT and tourism’ platform proposed by the Commission, but believes that greater efforts are needed to equip rural areas with the latest IT infrastructure (e.g. broadband Internet connection services) and provide training in how to use it, as well as further development, for instance in the framework of the CIP programme, of multilingual IT resources which could facilitate international tourism;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Suggests that the Commission prolongend the CALYPSO initiative until after 2011 and that it award increased attention to rural and farm tourism in the programmes developedby 2011;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Proposes, in view of the success of the ‘European capitals of culture’ and the ‘European heritage label’ initiatives, that a similar initiative be developed to devise a European label for rural areas of tourist interest; calls for that label to be the centrepiece of the promotion measures contemplated.voluntary but based on commonly agreed standards inspired by, for instance, the European Landscape Convention;