1. Commission Staff Working Document on Nautical Tourism

2. European Strategy for more Jobs and Growth in Coastal and Maritime Tourism (CMT) COM (2014) 86
… to boost competitiveness and sustainability of the sector, unlock its potential for growth and jobs.
4 pillars, 14 EU level actions, need joint implementation:
Stimulate performance and competitiveness
Promote skills and innovation
Strengthen sustainability
Maximize available EU funding

3. Coastal & Maritime Tourism
largest maritime activity in Europe – one third of the maritime economy
most important sub- sector of tourism
employs almost million people
generating a total of € 183 billion in GVA

4. Nautical Tourism - some figures
Nautical tourism (NT):
boating, kayaking, sailing, canoeing, diving, surfing,
~36 million EU citizens regularly practice recreational boating
Over 6 million boats kept in European waters
Turnover of EU charter sector ~€ 6 billion, 20,000 jobs.
First generation of ‘plastic’ boats will reach end of life
European Marinas estimated turnover almost € 4 billion - employing approximately 40,000 – 70,000 people.

5. Nautical Tourism Staff Working Document SWD(2017)126
Skippers’ licences
On-board safety equipment
Development of marinas and boating activities
Boat recycling

6. 1. Skippers licences Charter business is expected to grow …
… but skippers licences are not automatically recognised across the EU
Impact on charter business
Lack of free movement of skippers
Existing projects study how to compare licences
Possibility to build on the projects' results – pathway to EU skippers licence?

7. Two identical boats in the same location, but skippers are restricted to use only the one with national flag matching their skippers licence

8. 2. On-board safety equipment
Difference in equipment rules impacts:
Extra costs, lack of transparency for charterers
Safety (different rules for same navigation)
Coast Guards (difficult to verify foreign rules)
Enhance cross-border nautical activites by agreeing on minimum EU standard rules?
replica of Eiffel tower in Epcot or Las Vegas
Replica of Versailles in Shenzhen … 8

9. 3. Development of marinas & boating
Investment and innovation required (small and micro marinas, fragmentation as barrier to innovation, knowledge exchange)
Marinas as 'profit centers' for hinterlands?
Bridging seasonality and volatility of offer (acommodating elderly people, diversifying the offer, combined nautical coastal products )
replica of Eiffel tower in Epcot or Las Vegas
Replica of Versailles in Shenzhen … 9

10. 4. Boat recycling
In EU 80,000 boats, reach their 'end of use' each year.
~2,000 are dismantled. The rest is abandoned, sent to landfill, sunk or incinerated.
A recycling market for end-of- life boats has been slow to develop.
Circular economy - a market for jobs & growth

11. Conclusion Need for well functioning Single Market
Barriers to 'skippers without borders' to be acknowledged and tackled
Need for new technologies and innovation
Circular industrial innovation
Diversified and combined products linking maritime and coastal communities