to stimulate tourism for disadvantaged people

6. Welcomes the Commission’s Digital Tourism Platform and its objectives of (i) boosting the innovation capacity and digitisation of tourism-related SMEs for the purpose of activating the tourism sector, and (ii) generating proposals as to how to adapt and shape sustainable, competitive and consumer-focused policies aimed at further developing the tourism sector; encourages the use of innovative technologies, the sharing of best practices and the deepening of cooperation at regional level with a view to making Europe’s tourism sector ...[+++] more attractive and competitive; considers that the promotion of e-learning and the increased uptake of digital technologies would further advance this goal;

118. Welcomes the Commission’s Digital Tourism Platform and its objectives of (i) boosting the innovation capacity and digitisation of tourism-related SMEs for the purpose of activating the tourism sector, and (ii) generating proposals as to how to adapt and shape sustainable, competitive and consumer-focused policies aimed at further developing the tourism sector; encourages the use of innovative technologies, the sharing of best practices and the deepening of cooperation at regional level with a view to making Europe’s tourism sect ...[+++]or more attractive and competitive; considers that the promotion of e-learning and the increased uptake of digital technologies would further advance this goal;

118. Welcomes the Commission’s Digital Tourism Platform and its objectives of (i) boosting the innovation capacity and digitisation of tourism-related SMEs for the purpose of activating the tourism sector, and (ii) generating proposals as to how to adapt and shape sustainable, competitive and consumer-focused policies aimed at further developing the tourism sector; encourages the use of innovative technologies, the sharing of best practices and the deepening of cooperation at regional level with a view to making Europe’s tourism sect ...[+++]or more attractive and competitive; considers that the promotion of e-learning and the increased uptake of digital technologies would further advance this goal;

20. Encourages the Commission to promote a charter of tourists’ rights and to make existing standards which protect tourists’ rights in various circumstances clearer and more visible; calls on the Commission to further strengthen those rights where necessary and to encourage the competitiveness of the European tourism industry, in particular by furthering the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, which makes it a policy in its own right; reiterates in this context its call on the Commission to support the gradual harmonisation of the European accommodation classification system, in close cooperation with the authorities at various level ...[+++]s and the operators in the sector;