Tourism

Tour guides, tour managers and entertainers - A dream job! – Really? The reality is often different.

Many tour operators have relocated their recruitment agencies to Switzerland, from where the tour guides, tour managers and entertainers are dispatched to their workplaces in the tourism destinations, and which excludes them from information and consultation rights in the country of their origin and in European Works Councils.

Today, the ETLC launched at the European Tourism Forum, the European Trade Union Charter on Tourism, pointing out main challenges for workers in tourism and formulating expectations vis-à-vis the different stakeholders, employers, political actors and consumers.

On 10 and 11 June 2009, more than 100 representatives of the European tourism sector met in Prague at the Conference of the Czech EU Presidency "Tourism Industry: Employment and Labour Market Challenges".

Topics of the conference were the challenges and problems associated with the current situation in the tourism industry at European level.