30. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States, to encourage mobility and to exploit and promote lifelong learning, vocational and university training schemes and apprenticeships in the tourism sector, to maintain close contact with the world of research and business and to put more emphasis on innovation in tourism in the 8th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development; believes that Community programmes such as ‘Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs’ and ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ represent unique opport ...[+++]unities for acquiring professional and training skills, as well as enhancing career options, and should therefore be further developed and promoted, taking account also of the possibility of revising them so that they educate on best practices related to, among other things, customer care, accessibility and sustainability;

30. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States, to encourage mobility and to exploit and promote lifelong learning, vocational and university training schemes and apprenticeships in the tourism sector, to maintain close contact with the world of research and business and to put more emphasis on innovation in tourism in the 8th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development; believes that Community programmes such as ‘Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs’ and ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ represent unique opport ...[+++]unities for acquiring professional and training skills, as well as enhancing career options, and should therefore be further developed and promoted, taking account also of the possibility of revising them so that they educate on best practices related to, among other things, customer care, accessibility and sustainability;

30. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States, to encourage mobility and to exploit and promote lifelong learning, vocational and university training schemes and apprenticeships in the tourism sector, to maintain close contact with the world of research and business and to put more emphasis on innovation in tourism in the 8th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development; believes that Community programmes such as ‘Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs’ and ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ represent unique opport ...[+++]unities for acquiring professional and training skills, as well as enhancing career options, and should therefore be further developed and promoted, taking account also of the possibility of revising them so that they educate on best practices related to, among other things, customer care, accessibility and sustainability;

43. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to intensify their contacts with the hotel and tourist industry, so as to establish better cooperation on the industry's social responsibility and encourage the industry to adopt a code of ethics covering trafficking and prostitution where no such code exists; considers that good examples of ethical codes, such as the UNICEF-funded ECPAT code on the sexual exploitation of children, should ...[+++] be highlighted and recorded;

The programme has six subprogrammes : - the manufacturing industry subprogramme, which covers both support to make existing firms more competitive and incentives for the setting-up of new factories; - the tourism programme, which is intended to stimulate demand for, and diversify the supply of, tourist amenities through the protection and development of the natural and cultural heritage; - the basic drainage and sanitation infrastructure programma, which aims to enhance exploitation ...[+++] of water resources, to improve sanitary conditions and to harness and develop endogenous resources; - 2 - - the subprogramme for improving communications within the area and with other areas, which focuses on links between the main centres in the area and with those outside the area and aims to make a significant contribution to the development of the local transport network and reduce dependence on Lisbon; - the subprogramme for strategically important social infrastructure, which includes the establishment of vocational training schools to prepare young people for working lif and to provide them with skills better suited to the needs and changes expected in the area; - the natural resources, environment and land-reorganization subprogramme, which is designed to ensure efficient exploitation of the natural resources of the area, to reduce pollution levels, to safaguard development of the natural heritage and the countryside and to improve the environment.

With regard to the various sectors of the eocnomy, it should be noted that: - the process of modernizing hill and mountain farming, which was to have brought about an increase in productivity, has failed to progress beyond a certain level which remains inadequate bearing in mind the lower potential of the area and the unfavourable environmental conditions prevailing; - the secondary sector plays an entirely subordinate role vis-à-vis the industrial system of the region's more developed areas, with which it is partially but inadequately integrated; - the tourist potential of the IMP areas, which remains underexploited, is highly monosea ...[+++]sonal in character/.