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Forum October 2006
- King's Fund
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Joint forum with UNISON discusses the benefits of holidays
Holidays have a significant impact on health, inclusion and
economics according to speakers at a gathering at the King's
Fund on Tuesday 3rd October.
In addition the meeting learned the results of a survey of
almost 300 welfare agents that asked about their clients
needs regarding holidays, the benefits a holiday provided
and the welfare agents knowledge of "social tourism".
Audio & Download
Forum papers -
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Survey results -
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Press release -
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Listen here to a few of the
other contributions made by some of the people who attended
the forum
Barcelona Declaration
- the "miracle" of social
tourism
 Charles
Belanger from BITS also discussed a newly published opinion
paper from the European Economic and Social Committee, an
EU organisation. Published on the 14
September, the Barcelona Declaration is an important
statement on the importance of social tourism and the need
for it to be more comprehensively adopted throughout the EU.
It goes
on to say "we
can dub social tourism a "miracle" in that all the
practitioners and users obtain all kinds of benefits:
economic, social, health, employment, European citizenship …
no one is harmed by this activity … the bottom line is that
it would be difficult to find a human economic activity that
is so universally recognised and supported."
A copy of this significant paper can be downloaded in pdf
form
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Learn more about social tourism
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click here.
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