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PROGRAMME

Sustainable Tourism in Europe:

Chances & Challenges for SMEs

Saturday 19 April 2008 , 08:30 -12:30h

Sofia, Bulgaria

08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee

09:00 – 09:15 Opening and Introduction

• Nadezhda MIHAYLOVA, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, President of Union of

SME Bulgaria

09:15– 09:45 Keynote Speeches on Sustainable Tourism in Europe

• Sergey STANISHEV, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (tbc)

• Asen GAGAUZOV, Minister of the Regional Development and Public Works

• Francesco IANNIELLO, Head of Unit, Tourism, DG Enterprise and Industry

• Margie SUDRE MEP, President of Tourism Intergroup (tbc)

Discussion

09:45 – 10:45 Panel 1: Quality Tourism in Europe

Keynote Speech

• Nickolay VASSILEV, Minister of the State Administration

2

Impulse statements

• Miroslav MIKOLASIK MEP, Member of Tourism Intergroup (tbc)

• Markus LUTHE, Chairman of HOTREC Quality Board and CEO of German Hotels

Association (tbc)

• Paolo CESARO, ANCI IDEALI Foundation (tbc)

Discussion

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:15 Panel 2: The Role of SMEs in the Tourism Sector

Keynote Speech

• Anelia KRUSHKOVA, President of the State Tourism Agency

Impulse statements

• Luc HENDRICKX, Director Enterprise Policy & External Relations, UEAPME (tb)

• Michael ANGERER, Austrian Commercial Counselor (tbc)

• Vesselin GORNISHKI, Commercial Counsellor, Embassy of Bulgaria to Germany (tbc)

Discussion

12:15 – 12:30 Conclusions

• Patrick VOLLER, Secretary General of the SME UNION of the EPP

12:30 Cocktail Reception

Project Manager: Mariyana IVANOVA

94A Vassil Levski, Sofia, Bulgaria

m.ivanova@smeunion-bg.org

Tel: +359 2 943 91 65, Fax: +359 944 28 71

Project Manager: Özge UYANIK

22 Rue de Pascale, 1040 Brussels, Belgium

sme@sme-union.org,

Tel: +32 2 233 38 36, Fax: +32 2 230 92 18