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03.04.2008

Importance of promoting the development of Mediterranean tourism emphasised by Euromed tourism ministers in Morocco

In Morocco, the Slovenian Minister for the Economy and current President of EU Competitiveness Council, Andrej Vizjak, together with the host, the Moroccan Minister responsible for tourism, Mohamed Boussaid, is co-chairing the first Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Tourism. This is the first EuroMed Conference of ministers responsible for tourism with which the 39 Member States of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership are laying new foundations for closer cooperation between partner countries in the area of tourism.

“As a Mediterranean country Slovenia is well aware of the immense benefits that closer cooperation between the EU and its southern Mediterranean partners can bring to the further development of tourism in the region,” the President of the EU Competitiveness Council, Andrej Vizjak, stressed in his address.

The adoption of the first political conclusions and guidelines on future economic, environmental and cultural cooperation between the EU and its southern partners with regard to the further development of sustainable tourism establishes tourism as an increasingly autonomous area of discussion as well as laying down an important programme for achieving the aims of Euro-Mediterranean Partnership within the Barcelona Process.

“The establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean University in Slovenia with study programmes focused on the current needs of Mediterranean tourism is another contribution and incentive towards enhanced cooperation between partners,” emphasised Mr Vizjak.

At the Conference, the ministers presented their views on measures to promote the development of Mediterranean tourism within the Barcelona Process. They agreed that such a conference of ministers responsible for tourism should be held every two years and that, in the interim, working groups of senior officials should prepare further programmes for enhanced Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in the area of tourism.

In the margins of the conference, Andrej Vizjak met the Moroccan Minister responsible for tourism, Mohamed Boussaid. They talked about possibilities for further enhancing economic and tourism-related cooperation between the two countries.

 

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Date: 04.04.2008