Tourism

European Tourism Forum - Stimulating competitiveness in the European Tourism Sector, Kraków, 5-7 October 2011

Issues discussed (panels):

The plenary session addressed how to make European tourism more competitive.

Parallel events

informal meeting of tourism ministers on 6 October [266 KB]
signing of a joint declaration between the Commission and the European Travel Commission on cooperation and the promotion of “Destination Europe”.
Poland joined the 50,000 tourists pilot initiative by signing the memorandum of understanding.

The EU Perspective

Short statements by Member States, Institutions & Stakeholder Representatives

Jan KORTHOUT [29 KB] (on behalf of Minister Geert BOURGEOIS)
Director for International Realations, Department of Flanders, Belgium, EU Presidency 2010
Kristof SZATMARY [23 KB] ,
State Secretary, Ministry of National Economy, Hungarian EU Presidency 2011
Bryan CASSIDY [11 KB] ,
President of the Section for Internal Market, Production and Consumption, EESC
Kent NYSTROM [744 KB] ,
NET, President HOTREC
Marie KIHLBERG NELVING [40 KB] ,
ETLC President

Guest speaker

Panel 1 : Consolidating the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base for Tourism

Cordula WOHLMUTHER [428 KB] ,
Deputy Regional Director for Europe, UNWTO, "UNWTO in EUROPE"
Christophe DEMUNTER [315 KB] ,
Head of Tourism Statistics, EUROSTAT, "The Use of Mobile Positioning Data for Tourism Statistics"
Alfredo ZINI [449 KB] ,
President, Ente Bilaterale Nationale del Turismo (EBNT), "The Italian Statistical Tourism Observatory"
Ewa DZIEDIC [126 KB] ,
Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, "Consumer Attitudes and Tourism Satellite Accounts : the Polish Experience"

Rapporteur:

Mara MANENTE [106 KB] ,
Director Centro INternazionale di Studi sull'Economia Turistica, CISET, TSG Member

Panel 2 : Developing Innovation and ICT in Tourism

Robert PALMER [956 KB] ,
Director of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage, "Council of Europe Initiatives in Improving the Tourism Product through Innovation and the Use of ICT"
Karl WOEBER [518 KB] ,
President of Modul University Vienna, "The TourMIS Market Information System as a Tourism Management On-line tool"
Josep IVARS [436 KB] ,
Director of INVAT.TUR, Fundación Communidad Valenciana, Spain, "Tourism Innovation Strategies at Regional Level"
Matthias KOCH [2 MB] ,
CEO, Austrian Professional Hotel Association (APHA), "Innovation in the Accomodation Sector : the Hotels of the Future".
Gil PONS [996 KB] ,
Tourist innovation Policy Officer, Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur Region, NECSTour, "User-driven innovation in Tourism services : the regional dimension"

Rapporteur :

Mara MANENTE [106 KB] ,
Director Centro Internazionale di Studi sull'Economia Turistica CISET, TSG Member