EU Support to tourism - Need for a fresh strategic orientation and a better funding approach

This special report by the European Court of Auditors is meant to provide input for the Commission’s work in defining a comprehensive 2030 tourism strategy with medium- and long-term objectives. In this regard, sustainable tourism is one of the most prominent concepts in tourism development. It involves balancing the environmental, economic, and socio-cultural aspects of tourism development to guarantee that tourism is sustainable in the long term. This also concerns the question of how to address the effects of tourism on climate change and to cope with impacts of climate change on the tourism sector.