European Tour Operators Association Limited
Budget
€100 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
3
1.75 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
ETOA is a trade association, primarily providing events and services for tour operators and suppliers with business in European destinations. Over 1000 members and associate members contribute more than €12bn of business within Europe and include tour and online operators, intermediaries and wholesalers; European tourist boards, hotels, attractions and other parts of the value chain and its service providers. Our purpose is to provide valuable services, expertise and actionable information to the travel trade; design and deliver market-leading trade events and seminars (in-person and online). We seek to act in the long term interests of European visitor economy such that destinations remain appealing places to live and visit and do business in, and thus remain a sustainable source of employment for the foreseeable future.
EU Legislative Interests
The company provides support for the activities of European Tourism Association AISBL (Transparency Register 155317830583-03) so may act in relation to any of its policy priorities. In general, these relate to the business environment for tourism within and to Europe. Current areas of focus include: - Development of EC's sustainable tourism strategy - EES implementation and ETIAS communication - Package Travel - VAT: both the VAT package on travel and tourism, and VAT in a digital age (ViDA) The organisation is currently involved in attempting to influence in the following ways: - providing organisational support to European Tourism Association AISBL - contacting travel industry stakeholders to elicit opinion as to potential impact of proposed measures - coordinating joint efforts to illustrate impact of proposals - assisting Frontex with dissemination of accurate information about ETIAS, thereby having an opportunity to influence how that information is shared to make recommendations as to its content
Communication Activities
We send out newsletters on behalf of European Tourism Association AISBL which include calls to action in relation to EU policy. And archive is maintained here: https://www.etoa.org/operators-update/ We participate in ETIAS outreach effort by posting on social media and hosting webinars. For example: https://www.etoa.org/research/etoa-webinar-etias-briefing/
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
The company is an affiliate member of European Tourism Association AISBL (transparency register 155317830583-03) and will continue to make its resources available for activity on behalf of that Association. It is a member of the Tourism Alliance https://tourismalliance.com/
Organisation Members
For all associate non-voting members see here: https://www.etoa.org/member-search/ The database on which the search tools accessible via the above link includes all partners in various categories (for example, 'trade associations') and partners may also be viewed at https://www.etoa.org/our-partners/ Note: the only voting member is European Tourism Association AISBL
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.