Traduction de «Groupe de travail Tourisme et loisirs » (Français → Anglais) :

3. Believes that a better use of innovative products and services in the tourism sector will result in benefits for its sustainability; calls for inclusion of innovative and environmentally green tourism as a horizontal issue in the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP); underlines the major need to turn European tourism more and more towards responsibility and sustainability in order to respect the environment, local cultures and populations; encourages, therefore, the Commission’s initiatives in the area of sustainability, such as the development of sustainable management indicators, a charter for sustainable and responsibl ...[+++]e tourism, taking into account the political recommendations of the International Taskforce for Sustainable Tourism Development (GTI-DTD) within the Marrakech process, synergies of actions with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism, and a strategy for sustainable coastal and marine tourism, emphasising that more sustainability means more quality and increased customer satisfaction; calls for a more holistic approach in this area and, in particular, notes the possible negative impact of speculative real estate developments on the environment in tourism regions;

32. Welcomes the setting up of the public-private partnership made possible by the Sustainable Tourism Group; wishes to be involved and informed of the group's work and the progress thereof with a view to the elaboration of Agenda 21 with a view to European sustainable tourism; asserts that participation by organisations from this sector in the analysis, planning, monitoring and evaluation of policy at various levels in the tourist sector must be a fundamental and guiding principle;

32. Welcomes the setting up of the public-private partnership made possible by the Sustainable Tourism Group; wishes to be involved and informed of the group’s work and the progress thereof with a view to the elaboration of Agenda 21 with a view to European sustainable tourism; participation by organisations from this sector in the analysis, planning, monitoring and evaluation of policy at various levels in the tourist sector must be a fundamental and guiding principle;

32. Welcomes the setting up of the public-private partnership made possible by the Sustainable Tourism Group; wishes to be involved and informed of the group's work and the progress thereof with a view to the elaboration of Agenda 21 with a view to European sustainable tourism; asserts that participation by organisations from this sector in the analysis, planning, monitoring and evaluation of policy at various levels in the tourist sector must be a fundamental and guiding principle;

Based on the 2003 Communication on "Basic orientations for the sustainability of European tourism" and the work of the expert group known as the Tourism Sustainability Group, the Commission plans to present a proposal on a European Agenda 21 for tourism in 2007.

Finally, having met a group of disabled people from Ireland yesterday and today on their Freedom Drive in Strasbourg, I was pleased to note that the rapporteur has invited the Commission to put forward an initiative to make tourism and leisure establishments accessible to people with reduced mobility.