EU To Improve Its Economic Development: Create Luxury Tourism Routes

< p > in order to get rid of the shadow of "a href=" http://:http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_f.asp "economic" /a "crisis, stimulate economic development and increase employment, many European countries have turned their attention to the tourism market.

Trying to attract more tourists has become the highlight of the European Union and its member states.

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< p > < strong > simplify visa application procedures and provide convenience for inbound tourism < /strong > < /p >

< p > the European Commission in April 1st launched a motion to amend the European Union's application for Schengen's regional tourist visa requirements for third country tourists. The aim is to shorten the time of examination and approval for foreign citizens for short-term visas, simplify the approval process, and drive the economic vitality of the European region and create employment opportunities.

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< p > "Europe needs a smart visa policy". Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Commission's interior Commissioner, said, "we need to attract more tourists, businessmen, visiting scholars, students, artists and cultural professionals to Europe.

Now we want to promote economic development and create employment opportunities, so we need to attach importance to the economic benefits of visa policies.

At the same time, we must ensure that the border is highly secure. "

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Visitors to the United States, Canada and Australia who travel to Europe do not need visas, so they will take Europe as their top tourist destination. P

Recent research data from the European Commission showed that, due to the cumbersome visa procedures, in 2012, Europe "lost" 6 million 600 thousand potential tourists from the 6 major countries (China, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Ukraine).

The survey also showed that a flexible and simple visa policy could increase 30% to 60% visitors from the 6 countries in the Schengen region.

These tourists can spend 130 billion euros in 5 years, bringing nearly 1 million 300 thousand jobs to tourism and related industries.

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Antonio Tagani, vice chairman of the European Commission, who is responsible for industrial and enterprise innovation activities, added: "now that the international tourism competition is becoming increasingly fierce, many countries intend to promote the growth of the national economy by developing tourism. Our motion will be of great benefit to the European tourism industry." P

The revised bill is a magic weapon to meet challenges and will help the tourism industry to better welcome a large number of tourists coming to Europe.

Tourism is the engine of the EU's economic growth, and has been the mainstay of the European economy during the recent economic crisis.

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< p > the Schengen region includes 22 of the 27 EU Member States, as well as Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Romania, Britain and Ireland are not included in the Schengen visa policy. Entry to Schengen area requires only one visa from one country.

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< p > the European Tourism Association believes that the reform is very necessary.

Pielfrancisco Vago, European president of the international cruise liner Association, said: "smart visa policy will eliminate bureaucracy and provide a better destination experience for millions of developing countries that want short-term travel."

Another goal of simplifying visa policy reform is to attract middle income earners from developing countries to Europe instead of the United States.

In the past 10 years, visa procedures in the United States have been cumbersome and expensive, even for the citizens who have signed the visa free country.

After the European visa policy reform takes effect, it will be more convenient and cheaper for tourists to travel to Europe.

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< p > < strong > simplifying the visa of the former traveler < /strong > /p >

< p > the Schengen visa reform proposal must be approved by the European Union Member States and the European Parliament. Therefore, it will not be effective until 2015.

However, many European countries have already liberalized their visa processing policies.

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< p > in January this year, France implemented a 48 hour visa policy for Chinese tourists.

The French Ministry of internal affairs adopted another resolution in June 27th. Some overseas provinces and overseas territories in France (including reunion and the Polynesian islands in Tahiti) will implement a 15 day tour visa free policy for Chinese passport holders.

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The visa processing time for Chinese citizens to Italy has been reduced to 36 hours since P May.

From August, visa applications from China to the UK can be completed within 24 hours.

In addition, the United Kingdom is coordinating with a number of European countries, allowing Chinese tourists to submit an application, which can obtain a visa in Schengen and also get a British visa.

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< p > from the fall of this year, the Chinese with Irish visa will be able to go directly to the UK without having to submit an application, or vice versa.

It is reported that Germany is also planning to issue more entry visas to more Chinese applicants in 3 to 5 years.

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< p > < strong > create luxury tourism routes to attract Chinese tourists overseas < a href= "http://:http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_f.asp" > shopping > /a > /strong > /p >

< p > recent research by European luxury companies found that Chinese people have strong purchasing power for luxury goods, and Chinese consumers prefer to buy these large brands overseas.

In 2013, China spent more than 80 billion dollars on luxury goods, and 2/3 came from abroad.

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< p > since 2013, many luxury goods giants have been divestment from China. Giorgio Armani, Patek Philippe and dugbana have left the Bund, Shanghai. Louis Weedon also stopped plans to open a new store in China and used funds to decorate the flagship store in Europe.

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P luxury companies all over the world are trying to please Chinese tourists who are shopping overseas, and have launched a series of new ideas.

For example, Louis Weedon organized Chinese tourists to visit their museums and art spaces, gekvex led the Chinese tour group to visit their production workshop, and some European businesses invited visitors to visit the backstage of the fashion show.

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< p > < strong > pnational business cooperation to facilitate tourists overseas shopping tax rebate < /strong > /p >

Global Blue, which is responsible for tourists' overseas shopping rebates, has recently reached a cooperation agreement with Alipay, P.

Chinese tourists will soon receive tax rebates through Alipay's payment system, Alipay.

The cooperation agreement came into effect in July 8th. There were about 5000 businesses in France, Germany, Italy, Korea and the United Kingdom, and London Harold department store, Berlin KaDeWe department store and Italy Renaissance department store also had intention to join.

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David Bacosby, President of global blue Union, said: "Chinese tourists are our main foreign customers. According to the amount of tax rebates we handle, they average an average turnover of 815 euros per paction." P

According to the world tourism organization's estimate, the number of Chinese outbound tourists will increase to 200 million by 2020.

Therefore, we need to understand their needs ahead of time and provide them with a smooth rebate service.

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< p > < strong > increasing tourism tax. France starts the idea of tourists < /strong > /p >

These measures, which help attract tourists, are widely supported by the industry. < p >

On the contrary, some of the ways of scare away tourists are less popular.

In France, for example, in order to increase financial revenue, tourists have their brains.

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< p > recently, the French Socialist Party member drafted a bill to increase the hotel tax by 4 times, from 1.5 euros per night to 8 euros, and the specific amount fluctuated according to the hotel grade.

The bill also proposes a traffic tax for tourists visiting Paris. Tourists pay 2 euros a day to improve pport facilities and infrastructure.

The bill was passed by the house of Representatives last week and approved by the Senate. The ruling party hopes to raise taxes by bringing in an extra income of 112 million pounds (about 1 billion 190 million yuan) per year.

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< p > this bill has been severely criticized by many French government officials and businessmen.

French Foreign Minister Fabius announced in June 29th that if two tourism tax rates were raised, it would severely hurt the tourism industry and the precarious national economy.

Fabius used the word "danger" to describe the new measures of Parliament, and considered that such measures "are not conducive to promoting tourism, and tourism is the key to keeping jobs".

Economic Minister Arno Castel Del Monte strongly opposed the increase of tourism tax and called on Parliament to "reconsider the decision".

Barzun, chief executive officer of Accor hotel group, said: "these decisions are unfair, unsustainable and dangerous."

He pointed out that the new tax system will greatly exploit hotel profitability.

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