"At our conference today, the tourism ministers discussed the problem of child sex abuse by tourists and acknowledged the need to combat this immoral, criminal activity", Martin Bartenstein, President of the Tourism Council, said after the conference. It was necessary, he said, to implement more systematically the World Tourism Organisation's Code of Ethics and exchange information among the Member States.
The launch of the new travel portal www.visiteurope.com gives the travelling public a new, multilingual instrument with which to find information about Europe. This portal was set up by the European Travel Commission on behalf of the European Commission and seeks to open up a wholly new view of Europe as a travel destination.