On Wednesday 12 May, the ambassadors of the Member States to the European Union (Coreper I) approved a draft conclusion of the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council on the future of tourism in Europe for the next decade (see EUROPE B12712A6). This text will be adopted on 27 May by the Competitiveness Council.
With the tourism and travel sector - hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic - accounting for almost 10% of EU GDP and 11.7 million jobs, the draft conclusions stress the importance of...