Tourism sector: evaluation of the Community action plan 1993-1995

Adopting the report by Mr Lyndon HARRISON on the evaluation of the Community Action Plan to Assist Tourism (1993-1995), the Committee on Transport and Tourism called for the Intergovernmental Conference to provide tourism policy with the legal basis needed for it to be coordinated at national and European level. Believing that the European tourism industry had been neglected and that the protection of tourists needed to be improved, the report called for measures to be geared principally to the private sector (particularly SMEs) in order to restore "sustainable" forms of tourism. The report called for greater action on a number of specific problems: congestion on the roads during the holiday season, staggered holidays, rural tourism etc.�