Six EU-funded tourism projects – Cross-Re-Tour, TASTE, PHOENIX 4.0, CE4RT,TIB and VERNE – representing direct engagement with over 200 tourism SMEs and stakeholders across more than ten European countries, jointly created a policy recommendations addressed to the European Commission. More than proposing new policy areas, partners identified where existing instruments are structurally facing barriers of their stated objectives.
This brief has been prepared following a joint policy recommendation session convened by Cross-Re-Tour on 12 June 2026.
Read the full brief below.