Final NTG Blueprint Document
The Blueprint document is an output of the Next Tourism Generation (NTG) Alliance, a strategic and multi-layered collabo...
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
June 23, 2022
June 15, 2022Presentations and video’s of the NTG Final Conference
In view of the project’s closure at the end of June, a Final online Conference was organised and held on June 9th, att...
May 10, 2022NTG Final Conference: The transition of green, digital and social skills development
On the 9th of June, the NTG Alliance hosts the final online conference ‘The Next Tourism Generation: The transition of...
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:
