Sustainability of the future development of European Tourism

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Tourism - Miscellaneous, grade: merit, Bournemouth University, language: English, abstract: This essay makes a critically review of the philosophy and the application of the term

sustainability by the European Commission to the future development of the European

Tourism. The European Commission is an institution of the European Union and it is in

charge of checking if the legislation is implemented in all the Member States of the Union.

One of the latest legislation is the Treaty of Lisbon and there is mentioned by the first time the

word Tourism. The European Commission is also in charge of the sustainable development in

all the sectors, but in this case we have to highlight the Tourism industry. It is also explained

briefly the concept of European Union and their characteristics. Finally, it will be explained

the different case studies like EU 2020, EDEN and JESSICA. In order to criticize the

application of sustainability.