3 Amendments of Luís Paulo ALVES related to 2010/2206(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 on the European Regional Development Fund numbers among its priorities the protection and enhancement of natural and cultural heritage as offering potential for the development of sustainable tourismand quality tourism, highlighting its extraordinary cultural wealth, exemplified by UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and the exuberant natural beauty found in Natura 2000 sites across the EU;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises that tourism has a tangible impact on the economic, social and territorial cohesion of all the Member States; stresses also that tourism represents the main resource of some EU regions that are lagging behind economically, and that it has a direct impact on growth in other sectors, and that there is a need to consider their accessibility, principally through extension of the trans-European transport network objectives to these regions;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4a (new)
Paragraph 4a (new)
4a. Stresses that rural tourism and farm tourism are important means of countering seasonal bias in tourism, especially in the more remote regions; to this end, the access factor needs examining for those regions, with exploration of the potential for extending the European transport networks;