Review article
Tourism in the EU economic and social cohesion policy in 1994–1999 and 2000–2006 budget programming periods
Leszek Butowski
orcid.org/0000-0002-5885-7467
; Institut of Tourism in Warsaw, Poland
Abstract
The European Union is an international formation in which advanced integration processes are being implemented. These processes cover almost all the political, economic and social activities. The intensification of the processes in the recent two decades has led to the creation of the most developed system of supporting regional development worldwide. The aim of this article is to identify the level of the European Union (EU) economic and social cohesion policy engagement towards tourism sector in the two recently closed periods of EU budget programming (1994–1999 and 2000–2006). The following analyses were conducted: 1) qualitative which is examining the extent to which tourism was considered as a domain covered by the support in development programmes co-financed from the EU Structural Funds; 2) quantitative, which is related to the level of financial allocation from Structural Funds, designed to support tourism sector. A comparison of the levels of the European cohesion policy engagement towards tourism in the periods: 1994–1999 and 2000–2006 is also conducted. In the summary, discussion of the factors decisive of the role and the rank of tourism in the EU cohesion policy are presented.
Keywords
EU economic and social cohesion policy; tourism funding
Hrčak ID:
59328
URI
Publication date:
2.8.2010.
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