Digitalisation and data-driven governance in the field of tourism will be at the heart of the programme of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, which begins on Monday 1 July.
In its programme, the Presidency announces that it also wishes to “increase the role of family-friendly, multi-generational tourism among Member States, which is also an important contributor to the long-term sustainability of the sector”.
“We will actively work on reviewing and improving the framework conditions for tourism businesses and making these conditions transparent, reducing the burden on companies and developing a single database of tourism services”, it pledged.
Hungary will therefore resume negotiations on the revision of the Package Travel Directive and hopes to agree on a negotiating position (‘general approach’) and enter into ‘trilogue’ negotiations with the European Parliament (see EUROPE 13415/19). This directive was amended in response to the massive cancellation of holiday packages as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
For its part, the Parliament has not yet begun work on this text, due to the European elections.
Read the Hungary programme: https://aeur.eu/f/crs (Original version in French by Anne Damiani)