Seasonality in the tourist accommodation sector

Posted on: 6 October 2014
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This article focuses on the tourist accommodation sector in the European Union and looks at the seasonality of arrivals and nights spent in accommodation establishments as well as the seasonality of the turnover and the employment in this specific tourism industry.

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Helping ecosystems in Europe to adapt to climate change

Posted on: 30 September 2014
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This report summarises much of the work done by, and for, the Climate Change Group of the European Network of Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies (ENCA) between 2011 and 2013. The ENCA Climate Change Group is made up of experts in climate change and ecology from government conservation agencies across Europe. The aim is to further promote the integration of the findings of impacts and adaptation research into conservation practice, and help conservation practitioners learn from the experiences of colleagues dealing with similar conditions, issues, threats and opportunities in other parts of Europe.

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Seasonality in the tourist accommodation sector

Posted on: 26 September 2014
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This article focuses on the tourist accommodation sector in the European Union and looks at the seasonality of arrivals and nights spent in accommodation establishments as well as the seasonality of the turnover and the employment in this specific tourism industry.

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Is the ERDF effective in funding projects that directly promote biodiversity under the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020?

Posted on: 19 September 2014
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The main objective of the audit was to assess whether the ERDF has been effective in funding projects directly promoting biodiversity as part of the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020.

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Tourism statistics: Winter season occupancy

Posted on: 17 September 2014
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This article analyses the tourism trends of the 2013-2014 winter season in the European Union (EU) Member States, EFTA and candidate countries. In terms of nights spent at hotels and similar accommodation establishments, tourism recorded positive growth rates in most countries, compared with the same period in 2012-2013.

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Attitudes of European citizens to the environment

Posted on: 17 September 2014
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This Eurobarometer survey on the environment comes three years after the previous report on the subject, and there is no indication that Europeans’ concern about environmental issues has diminished in that time.

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The next EU climate and energy package: EU climate policies after 2020

Posted on: 3 September 2014
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This study assesses the status quo of EU climate and energy policy and experience with the current set of targets and instrument, and distills from it concrete recommendations for a new package for the period until 2030. In this study, a group of authors from Ecologic Institute’s climate and energy team take stock of the current targets and policies and draw lessons from the experience so far, resulting in concrete recommendations for improvements for the the future, in particulr towards 2030. They also assess the Commission’s proposal against this backdrop and find it lacking, despite steps in the right direction.

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Safety of tourism accommodation services

Posted on: 25 July 2014
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The purpose of this document from the European Commission is to launch a public consultation on the safety of tourism accommodation services. The objectives are to gather input from all relevant parties involved in the issue of tourism accommodation services with an aim to evaluate whether the issues outlined above are sufficiently and effectively addressed and whether there is evidence of new risks and whether the existing tools are adequate. This paper furthers asks about the level at which action would be most effective to usefully contribute to effective levels of safety for consumers. The paper would also seek help in quantifying these issues.

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The urban dimension of EU policies – key features of an EU Urban Agenda

Posted on: 21 July 2014
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The European Commission has launched a consultation on the need for an ‘EU urban agenda’ in order to improve ‘slow and piecemeal’ urban policy initiatives at national and European level. A growing number of voices argue that cities need to be adequately involved in the conception and implementation of EU policies, and that EU policies need to be better adapted to the urban realities where they will be implemented. This is expressed by calls for an EU urban agenda coming from a range of stakeholders at the EU, national and local level. The purpose of this consultation is to widen debate to all stakeholders and to reach relevant stakeholders and to gather their ideas and further clarifying the need for an EU urban agenda, what its objectives should be and how it could function. Comments are requested by 26 September 2014.

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Tourism statistics at regional level

Posted on: 14 July 2014
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This article is part of a set of statistical articles based on the Eurostat Regional Yearbook publication. It presents regional patterns of tourism across the European Union (EU); its main focus is tourism occupancy within tourist accommodation establishments, while it also presents figures on the capacity of tourist accommodation.

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