Members of the EP Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) vote on Establishing an EU Strategy for Sustainable Tourism. Statement by Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR (EPP,PT), rapporteur. Illustrations tourism in crisis in the EU.

TRAN Committee - Vote on Establishing an EU Strategy for Sustainable Tourism: statement by Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR (EPP,PT), rapporteur

SOUNDBITE (English), Cl&#225;udia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR (EPP, PT), When we built this report, it was with four guidelines. First rebuilding the industry, with the pandemic response plans, refocusing the governance policy within the framework of the union, strengthening the industry initiatives for sustainable, responsible and smart tourism, and then, of course, thinking in the future, planning the future industry with the changes that will take place in the near future.

SOUNDBITE (English), Cl&#225;udia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR (EPP, PT), We don't want that the same thing happened as in the first period of the pandemic. So we wanted to, we ask for a new testing protocol. We also put into the discussion because the debate is on the agenda for the creation of the European vaccine certificate. Also, we ask for the creation of a sanitary seal. When we are talking about Europe as a destination and we want to be connected with third countries. We ask for the creation of a sanitary seal for a safe and clean destination in Europe.

SOUNDBITE (English), Cl&#225;udia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR (EPP, PT), We ask in the report that in the Conference of the Future of Europe, that will be initiated, we ask for the discussion or the debate if tourism should become a shared competence in the EU instead of being just a complementary competence in the EU.

SOUNDBITE (English), Cl&#225;udia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR (EPP, PT), If the travel and tourism industry represent 10 percent of the GDP. Well, this is a huge response to say that an agency for this industry makes sense.

SOUNDBITE (English), Cl&#225;udia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR (EPP, PT), Inside the EU what we want is to have a coordination. If we have a European certificate vaccine that is not mandatory, it needs to be coordinated because people, citizens that travel and citizens that have rules in airports, in ports, in trains, in these modes of transport, this needs to become common for the coordination of even the citizens' way of travelling, the free movement. So we want a common European vaccination certificate if it will exist that can be coordinated. We need to harmonise because summer season is coming and if we will restart the trips and the movement of citizens inside the EU, we should do it in a coordinated manner.

SOUNDBITE (English), Cl&#225;udia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR (EPP, PT), We ask here on this report also financial support from the EU funds that can be distributed for the member states. If we didn't have, as we asked last year, for a budgetary line.So we ask now that the Commission calls on member states, on regional, on local authorities to include tourism and travel sectors in their recovery plans and in the REACT-EU initiative.

Spain. Barcelona, Sagrada Famila (3 shots)

Knokke, North sea, beach and hotels at the Belgian coast (3 shots)

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