We wish Catalonia to be a greater place to stay and a greater vacation spot to go to.
We wish Catalonia to be a greater place to stay and a greater vacation spot to go to. It's virtually unattainable to consider our nation with out making an allowance for the tourism sector: it represents 12% of GDP and 14% of employment. This is the reason we should make sure that we offer solutions to the brand new international challenges going through this highly effective financial sector. And this path is what now we have begun to do with the Nationwide Dedication for Accountable Tourism, a transversal settlement through which unions, employers, environmental organizations or neighborhood federations, amongst many different actors, have set a street map on the place to transit this key sector.
From the Authorities of the Generalitat, now we have a clearly transformative vocation: we work to handle the current successfully and effectively, but additionally to advertise these structural adjustments that we imagine the nation wants. And now could be the time to rework the tourism sector, to equip ourselves with a brand new shared mannequin, extra moral, modern and accountable.
As a result of the twentieth century had totally different parameters than at this time. We're a global reference vacationer energy in lots of facets. We've got constructed some crucial constructions which have highlighted who we're and what we signify. However the twenty first century calls for extra from us.
We're in a context of worldwide and accelerated adjustments in all areas. The which means of those adjustments, nonetheless, is to be determined. We will direct them to the collective profit, to the reply to the most important challenges we face. Within the case of tourism, that is what we're beginning to do with the Dedication: transferring in the direction of a extra sustainable mannequin from an environmental, social, financial and modern perspective. In direction of a extra balanced and diversified mannequin when it comes to territory, time and typology.
And this milestone can solely be reached with dialogue and an outstretched hand, reconciling totally different professional pursuits for the good thing about the nation. The Nationwide Dedication to Accountable Tourism is the results of a technique of collective participation. For 13 months, a plurality of very numerous entities have carried out an train in generosity to place apart their variations and search for a standard denominator to outline the form of accountable tourism we wish.
Greater than 700 folks have participated on this technique of collective transformation, which has resulted in an settlement that already has 111 accessions from organizations of all sorts, and which is open to including new ones. There isn't a place on the earth that has an settlement of those traits, even supposing some locations wager and mirror on the customer financial system, accountable tourism and environmental sustainability.
To attain this transformation that the settlement seeks, now we have a dedicated ecosystem, the belongings and the mandatory consensus. That permits us to ensure a mannequin of accountable tourism with the surroundings, with the surroundings, with respectable work, with society and with the planet. A sexy tourism for the person who visits the nation, however on the similar time, constructive for the territory as a complete, helpful for Catalans and a generator of prosperity.
However nothing ends with the presentation of the Nationwide Dedication for Accountable Tourism. Now that we all know the place we need to go, it's as much as us to work on an operational plan that makes it attainable to attain what now we have agreed upon on this settlement.
We rely on the entities and firms within the sector to attain this collectively. As a result of Catalonia is a vacationer nation, which has a powerful and resilient trade to be a part of the answer to the nice challenges we face.
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