Business & Employment

In all ARC member regions, airports are the major motors for creating jobs. Often, the problem is how to create employment and how to match employment and unemployed people living in the surroundings of the airport. However, in some cases the economy is overheated and further growth is undesirable. The ARC Business & Employment Interest Group is concerned about these issues. In the past, the group studied future needs in airport related employment. It also analysed business models in the air freight industry and its implications for regional development. 

The new activities of the group consist of the Interreg IIIC project STRAIR (STRategic development and co-operation between AIrport Regions). STRAIR is a benchmark study on innovative industrial and business development at airports on an interregional level. The first results of the studies on ‘Innovation and Business Development (in)directly related to Airports’ and on ‘the Territorial Impacts of Airport Development’ are expected in 2006.

Chairman Business & Employment Interest Group

STRAIR