CLIA Europe and ECTAA invite the EU to return the Code of the visas flexible



The European operators of the fields of the cruises and tourism have invited the European Union to return more flexible the Code of the visas of the EU to the aim to facilitate the income in Europe of tourists and coming travellers from third-country who has right to meanwhile enter in the EU maintaining the current one elevated level of safety. The exhortation has been launch today from the representatives of the CLIA Europe, the association that represents the crocieristici operators in Europe, and of the ECTAA, the confederation that groups the associations of the European travel agents and the tour operator, taking part to the European Forum of the Tourism that is carried out today and tomorrow to Luxemburg under the promoters of the Luxemburgian presidency of the EU.

The invitation of CLIA Europe and ECTAA happens in the picture of the legislative proposal of the EU commission of review of the Code EU of the visas that is introduced in April 2014 with the scope to simplify the current procedures of release of the visas of short duration inside of the Schengen Agreement area.

The two associations have evidenced that, second the esteem of the EU commission, the current ones hamper bureaucratic in the within of the regime in vigor are preventing to an elevated number of potential coming tourists from third-country, estimated in beyond six million people, to visit the European continent. Moreover CLIA Europe and ECTAA have emphasized that such obstacles return Europe one of the regions with the more restrictive regime to the world in terms of obligation of visa for the foreign tourists and this determines a displacement of tourist flows potentially directed in the EU towards other destinations with politics of the visas less restrictive, as for example the United States.

The consequence of this - they have found CLIA Europe and ECTAA - is that the industry of tourism in the Schengen zone cannot annually bring 5,5 billion euros of potential directed contribution to the Gross Domestic Product one of the European Union neither to increase the level of occupation adding until about 113.000 places of job in the field of tourism.

"It is absolutely important - the general secretary of the ECTAA, Michel de Blust has asserted - than the European institutions recognize potential the socioeconomic one on tourism and the economy of intelligent politics in topic of visas and that they intensify the efforts in course in order to support the fast adoption of European politics of the visas truly adapted with release procedures of the clear visas, simple and accessible".

"Since the competition of the emergent countries continuous to grow - it has observed the general secretary of CLIA Europe, Raphael von Heereman - the status of Europe which first world-wide tourist destination is more and more in argument. Politics of the visas are necessary more intelligent in order to increase the number of tourists of coming third-country from emergent countries as China, India and Russia, all potential important markets of origin for the European field of the cruises. A better exploitation than this potential one could contribute to an ulterior expansion of the field of the cruises in Europe. Moreover it would allow with the section of tourism to contribute more still to the European economy, generating that economic increase and of the so much necessary occupation in this crucial moment of the economic resumption". Von Heereman has found that "an effective Code of the visas could also facilitate the income and the job of members of the crews of the ships that they demand seen for stays of short duration in order to enter in the Schengen area. This - it has concluded - is fundamental in order to improve the way with which the crocieristiche companies they operate in Europe".