The national tourism strategy is to be further developed. It is about climate neutrality as well as environmental and nature conservation, digitization and securing skilled workers.
The federal government wants to help the tourism industry with the double restart after the Corona crisis.
“In particular, the federal government would like to support the industry in making its own contribution to the fastest possible transformation towards climate neutrality,” said the federal government’s tourism coordinator, Claudia Müller, in Berlin. On Wednesday, the cabinet decided on the cornerstones for the further development of the national tourism strategy.
It is about the future topics of climate neutrality as well as environmental protection and nature conservation, digitization, securing skilled workers and competitiveness in tourism. They are to be included as focal points in the planned work program of the federal government, which is to be presented before the end of this year.
The previous government had already adopted a national tourism strategy in 2019. Concrete measures should also be developed in cooperation with the federal states. After the outbreak of the corona pandemic in spring 2020, however, crisis management was the order of the day. The corona restrictions had hit the industry particularly hard.
The German Tourism Association welcomed the key points that had been decided. “Now we have to start working on the specific measures quickly,” said association managing director Norbert Kunz. “The key points are positive that the coalition is implementing its announced tourism policy work program.”
The German Travel Association (DRV) welcomed the fact that the federal government wanted to seek dialogue with the travel industry as the process progressed. At the same time, the association, which mainly represents travel agencies and tour operators, demanded that domestic and foreign trips be considered equally. «Tourism is not only tourism in Germany. The tourism strategy must take this into account,” said DRV President Norbert Fiebig.
Source: Stern
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