Improving the business environment and enhancing investment
in the tourism sector, through the better use of available EU financing
opportunities.
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Boosting digitalisation and the use of online marketing and distribution tools within the industry to meet
new trends and consumer expectations.
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Enhancing the skills and competences of the tourism sector in order to improve career prospects
and support the industry to find and retain professionals with the right skills.
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Raising the profile of Europe as a tourism destination with the aim to complement promotional efforts
at national and regional level and to attract more tourism flows to Europe, particularly from key third
countries' source markets.
The challenge of creating a European policy environment that facilitates the Single Digital Market is underscored
by the OECD’s finding that the European digital market is made up of 54% US-based online services, 42% of
national online services, and 4% European Union cross-border services
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. The European Commission’s role is to
address barriers to the single digital market, and to streamline its development. The task of creating and maintaining
a supportive policy and regulatory environment that facilitates digitalisation falls to tourism organisations and public
administrations in member states. According to an OECD survey of the top 10 challenges to digitalisation across
31 countries, the 3 most prominent challenges for governments were:
● lack of awareness, implementation and enforcement.
● insufficient skills, training and education.
● multi-actor, multi-stakeholder and multi-level governance coordination
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.
That said, varying levels of expertise, availability of capital, infrastructure availability, cost and reliability, access to
talent, and capacities of business ecosystems result in uneven opportunities for digitalisation. In tourism, this is
further exacerbated by the large proportion of SMEs that characterise the tourism sector, and the particular
characteristics of the sector including the relatively conservative (i.e. traditional and low risk) nature of tourism
operators, fluctuations in productivity caused by seasonality, and high levels of casual and seasonal labour.
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European Commission.
A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe
{SWD(2015) 100 final} March 2015. Brussels.
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OECD Digital Economy Outlook (2017). (p.35)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264276284-en
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ibid. (p.37)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264276284-en
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