THE BENEFITS OF SOCIAL TOURISM

• Main Authors: Nicoleta Rossela Dumitru, Costel Iliuta Negricea
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Danubius University 2008-05-01
• Series: EIRP Proceedings
• Online Access: http://www.proceedings.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/eirp/article/view/1082/1001

Attention should be given to the challenge that the Lisbon Agenda raises for tourism,especially social tourism. As the strategic objective of the agenda is to make Europe "the most competitive anddynamic knowledge-based economy în the world, capable of sustained growth, growth providing more andbetter jobs and greater social cohesion", it will be necessary to analyse whether social tourism contributeseffectively and positively to this goal, how it achieves this, and how its contribution could be enhanced.Tourism, and also, social tourism, has strong links with employment and social policy, theimprovement of quality, technological research and development, consumer protection, environmental policyand other very diverse policies. In particular it should be pointed out that the present opinion aims to pinpointand analyse the contribution of social tourism to employment and social policies.Social tourism was created to promote the idea of the right to holidays for all, along with decentworking conditions and incomes for employees of the leisure sector.