Invitation to join the pact for skills in Tourism
The European Commission is launching a Pact for Skills, a shared engagement model for skills development in Europe. Co...
The Next Tourism Generation Alliance (NTG) is the first European partnership and alliance for improving a collaborative and productive relationship between education and industry. The NTG Alliance will provide employees, employers, entrepreneurs, teachers, trainers and students with a set of Core NTG modules in digital, green and social skills.
Project Scope
To establish a Blueprint Strategy for Sectoral Skills Development in Tourism to respond to the fast changing and increasing skills gaps in digital, green and social skills sets
To define a scalable mechanism and model for sustainable and digital curricula between the industry and education providers at regional, national and European level
To create transformative cooperation in five key tourism sub-sectors: hospitality, food and beverage operations, travel agencies and tour operators, visitor attractions and destination management
To develop, deliver and test Next Tourism Generation (NTG) Skills Products for professionals, trainers, students, university tourism departments, local authorities, companies to respond to the fast changing and increasing skills gaps in digital, green and social skills sets
Digital skills
Skills based on online marketing, data analytics, use of technology via artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual and augmented reality applications.
Green skills
Skills based on resource management to recycle and manage waste, water and energy services including principles of circular economy in the design and management of tourism value chains, sustainable design and management techniques of hotels and sustainable tour packages.
Social skills
Skills based on behavioural and practical attitudinal competences in interpersonal communication, accessible tourism knowledge, gender equality, cross-cultural understanding and customer service.
News
January 14, 2021
December 11, 2020NTG Webinar ‘Upskilling & reskilling in Tourism: Pact for Skills’ 18 December 2020
Webinar Upskilling & Reskilling: Pact for Skills 18 December 2020, 11.30 – 13.00 CET Click here ...
November 10, 2020This week: European Vocational Skills Week | 9-13 November 2020
On Monday November 9th, the fifth European Vocational Skills Week, has kicked off. The online event is organised by the ...
Partners
In total, 14 partners represent the whole tourism sector including specialists in hospitality, food and beverage, travel agencies, attractions and recreation. Drawn from 8 EU countries (Italy, UK, Spain, Bulgaria, Hungary, The Netherlands, Germany and Ireland), the consortia comprises:
