Tourism 2020 – towards the development of a sustainable tourism industry

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\r\n XTourism is one of the fastest growing sector worldwide and particularly in the European Union. It is also one of the most complex sectors for its diversity and inclusion of many related activities with a large impact on the economy and the employment in Europe. Current issues, such as global warming, financial crisis and sustainability, new technologies and demographic changes to name just a few, affect the tourism industry leading to a questioning on the future of the sector. Employers and workers have indeed the same interest in the future and there is need for cooperation and dialogue amongst all those involved with tourism. At present, there are 36 European social dialogues going on allowing the European social partners to contribute significantly to defining European social standards (EC, 2010). The social dialogue at European level is a fundamental base to a social Europe and enables workers and employers to determine long term strategies for the development of their sector. Yet tourism, as one of the biggest and fastest expanding sector, is not yet subject to a social dialogue on European Level. One of the problematic consists in the fuzzy approach of what the tourism industry really constitutes.\r\n