Proclaiming overseas holidays as a “human right”, the EU has put forth plans to fund holidays for pensioners, young people and the deprived class.
The proposal was tabled by Antonio Tajani, the EU commissioner for enterprise and industry, at the European Tourism Stakeholders Conference in Madrid last week. Mark Tanzer, the Abta chief executive, moderated the opening session at the conference, oganised to develop an EU-wide Tourism Policy Framework.
Tajani stated that subsidised holidays would uphold people’s right to be tourists. The move could cost Europe’s taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds a year and would benefit all those who have been deprived of holidays owing to socio-economic liabilities.
A spokesman for Tajani stated that the move would also help people break past barriers and travel to destinations that are diametrically opposite to their hometowns in the geographical sense.
Before it starts operating in full swing, the program will be assigned the status of a ‘pilot project’ until 2013.
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