The blueprint by the Travel Foundation, commissioned by NECSTouR and CPMR, offers Mediterranean Tourism Regional Authorities and DMOs guidance on developing climate strategies.
The UNESCO-UNEVOC report outlines strategies to support green and digital transitions in hospitality and tourism, offering practical advice for integrating new skills education and training.
The European Travel Commission (ETC) published a checklist to help National Tourism Organisations handle tourism crises through four phases: preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience.
The European Travel Commission (ETC) published a report that outlines the crises impacting Europe’s tourism sector, highlighting lessons learned and best practices from Europe and beyond.
The European Travel Commission (ETC) and MMGY TCI Research released a report, analysing the effects of climate change, including heatwaves, wildfires, and floods, impacting tourism and travel patterns.
On August 2024, the Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, commonly referred to as the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, came into effect. The regulation provides a globally binding, comprehensive framework for the deployment and use of AI systems across the EU. Its main objectives are to ensure that AI systems are reliable, centred around human needs, and consistent with EU values. AI is being increasingly utilised in the tourism industry, enhancing aspects such as personalised travel recommendations, efficient customer service through chatbots, and optimising travel itineraries.
The European Tourism Manifesto alliance published in July 2024 a strategic vision for the European tourism industry for the 2024-2029 EU mandate. The document stresses the importance of tourism for the EU and highlights key priorities for the European tourism sector, focusing on four main areas: EU vision and strategy, decarbonisation, connectivity and borders, and innovation and adaptation. It aims to ensure that tourism continues to positively impact Europe’s economy and society while addressing challenges such as regulatory compliance, business adaptation, and environmental impact.
The 2024 edition of the OECD Tourism Trends and Policies report analyses tourism trends and policy responses across 50 OECD and partner countries. It explores the latest tourism developments and outlook.
The European Travel Commission (ETC) has issued a report that provides an analysis of the European tourism industry in Q2 2024 demonstrating the performance and the latest developments in the sector.
The European Commission published a Communication on the data space for public procurement that will improve public spending, boost data-driven policymaking and improve access to tenders for SMEs. Click on "more" and get access to the article. Follow the link for the official Communication and see also a comprehensive YouTube video!
The European Commission published a Staff Working Document on the data space for public procurement data that will improve public spending, boost data-driven policymaking and improve access to tenders for SMEs.
Digital building logbooks are common repositories for all building-related data, increasing transparency, trust and informed decision making. The outcomes of the study on an EU framework for logbooks resulted in proposals for future steps the Commission can take.
This study aims to benchmark diffuse initiatives and policies at EU level as well as national level to promote successful approaches using digital technologies in social economy and social enterprises.
The objective of the study is to quantify the evolution of online advertising on websites infringing intellectual property rights (IPR) over time and monitor the impact of the Memorandum of understanding (MoU) on online advertising and IPR on the online advertising market.
The European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) has regularly been collecting information about measures adopted in the postal sector in light of the Covid-9 outbreak.
This study measures the success rates of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in public procurement and identifies policy initiatives to further support their participation. Although the study was conducted before the coronavirus crisis, it offers recommendations that can be especially useful in helping SMEs recover and build resilience in the aftermath of the crisis.
This study explores the public procurement aspects in contracts for large infrastructure projects, with an emphasis on the issues and trends that were emerging in the selection of procurement procedures within particular delivery models. Identifying these issues and trends opens up the opportunity to consider the timing and integration of the selected procurement model and procurement procedure into the overall delivery model for large infrastructure projects.
This publication aims to inspire public buyers around Europe to buy social. It contains a collection of 71 good practice cases showing how public buyers have implemented socially responsible public procurement (SRPP) to promote employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, and compliance with social and labour rights in the EU and globally, while also delivering high quality social services and facilitating access of social businesses to public tenders.
The European observatory for clusters and industrial change (EOCIC) has published the 2020 edition of the European Panorama of Clusters and Industrial Change.
The European Observatory for Clusters and Industrial Change published valuable guidance for cluster policy-makers. It shows how to better monitor results and strategically evaluate policies and programmes set up to support the development of industrial clusters and the competitiveness of its firms.
