Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Tourism Association AISBL (ETOA)
EU Transparency Register
155317830583-03 First registered on 06 Mar 2018
Goals / Remit
The purpose of the Association is:
• to increase awareness and understanding of the socio-economic importance of European travel and tourism;
• to contribute to the sustainable development, training, research, and promotion of tourism in Europe;
• to act as a forum that brings together diverse sectors and stakeholders of European tourism to share knowledge and experience, discuss issues of mutual concern and facilitate cooperation;
• to encourage an efficient liaison with the European Commission and maintain a channel of mutual communication and information on European Union legislation and actions;
• to act as a permanent consultative body for the European Commission and other international institutions and organisations;
• to maintain permanent relationships with relevant European and other international institutions and organisations concerned with tourism in the public and private sectors;
• to support the common interests of members toward (...)Main EU files targeted
Legislation that has or might have an impact on tourism in Europe, including:
- legal competence in relation to tourism and its business environment
- indirect taxation (within EU and its sources markets selling EU product)
- visa facilitation
- single market / digital single market
- online marketplace
- multimodality and related matters (ticketing, liability etc.)
- package travel and passenger rights
- coach and driver regulation
- joint promotion
- cross border product development and service provision
- sustainability (including Fit-for-55, climate action and product diversification)
- sectoral recovery and support following Covid-19 pandemic
- transition pathway for tourism (T4T) and related initiatives implementing twin transitionAddress
Head Office
Rue du Marché aux Herbes 61
Bruxelles 1000-B
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue du Marché aux Herbes 61
Bruxelles 1000-B
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Organisational background and structure
The association has access to the resources of one of its members, a the European Tour Operators Association Limited (ETOA Ltd.), transparency register ID 700500614404-28. This includes its team.
The association was previously known as the European Travel and Tourism Advisory Group (ETAG), founded in the early 1980s. The association's name was changed to the European Tourism Association AISBL in 2017.
The association is the sole voting member of ETOA Ltd.Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
The association participates in the following informal industry groups with a view to building consensus for actionable policy priorities for the tourism industry: NET and the European Manifesto Alliance, acting as vice-chair for the latter since late 2020. Further information is available at:
www.net-tourism.eu
www.tourismmanifesto.euMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
10,000€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
0€ - 10,000€
Other financial info
During the pandemic the association was, in effect, financially dormant. It waived membership fees, and incidental costs and overheads were met by ETOA Ltd. Thus, the last closed year (2021) had negligible financial activity. There was no revenue and the only costs were bank charges.
During 2022, the association received an initial payment of 17,256.57 EUR in relation to its participation in PANTOUR, a project focused on sectoral skills development. As this is not the most recent closed financial year, this figure is not included above.
During 2023, its revenue will include membership fees and further payments under PANTOUR. Its costs will include consultants providing services on the association's behalf in European destination markets. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Stakeholder expert group to support the application of the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Directive (2015/2302)#E03617#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3617 #Member #C#Industry
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Further information is available via the following:
- policy: https://www.etoa.org/insight-and-policy/
- insights and previous webinars: https://www.etoa.org/insight/
- events: https://www.etoa.org/events/
- membership: https://www.etoa.org/members-in-numbers/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 22 Apr 2020 Location Video Conference Subject Impact of Covid-19 on Tourism: follow-up meeting Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Pauline Weinzierl (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Gaelle Garnier (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Apr 2020 Location Videoconference Subject COVID 19 economic impact on European tourism industry Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Gaelle Garnier (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists