PANTOUR and Pact for Skills Tourism event – 17 February 2023

PANTOUR and Pact for Skills event – 17 February 2023

During this panel, we seek to discuss with a solution focused approach the emergence of initiatives to attract and retain staff in tourism and hospitality across Europe. In a joint event organised by the Pantour Consortium and the Pact for Skills for Tourism (PfST), which also promotes joint action through the establishments and implementation of large-scale skills partnerships at national, regional and local levels.

Some of the questions that arise are, how could we potentialise the industry by promoting solutions to address staff shortages? And what initiatives are happening on the groudn? This panel seeks to prpvide an overview of initiatives and case studies to address the shortage of staff in the sector.

The session is free to join online, click here to join the meeting.

First PANTOUR webinar – 9 February 2023

We are delighted to invite you to our first PANTOUR webinar – Pact for Next Tourism Generation Skills on 9 February, 2023. Want to learn everything about our research on current and future skills needs in tourism, conducted in the last months? Make sure you join this webinar and get more information on how to be ahead of the developments while participating in PANTOURs project activities that are planned for the upcoming years.

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NEXT TOURISM GENERATION continued in the new PANTOUR project

In June 2022, the Tourism Blueprint Strategy was delivered to the European Commission by the Next Tourism Generation Alliance (NTG). It was the result of more than four years of work and research about skills and training in the tourism sector in Europe. This strategy stated how to promote skills development in order to achieve better tasks development in any job position. As it was discovered, the same skills are used for different tasks and allow professionals to develop different job positions. This way, professionals must be trained on skills while they will be taught in operational tasks in their positions. From this point, a new project was submitted to an ERASMUS+ call, “Pact for Next Tourism Generation Skills – PANTOUR.

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NTG Blueprint Strategy and Action Plan for addressing digital, social and green skills needs in the European tourism

Building on previous work by the European Commission and sectoral partners to address skills gaps in tourism, the NTG Alliance is one of the Sector Skills Alliances set up as part of the Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills. Each Sector Skills Alliance is funded by the European Commission Erasmus + KA2 programme and was tasked with setting up a Blueprint to help direct the way forward for skills development across a wide range of stakeholders. Thus, the NTG Alliance has developed the first Pan-European Skills Blueprint for the Tourism Industry, presented in this document. The Blueprint provides a roadmap for addressing digital, social and green skill needs in the tourism sector in Europe through transformational collaboration between industry, education, social partners and government.

This Blueprint sets out a comprehensive methodology to respond to the need for a sectoral skills strategy that is innovative, relevant, and responsive to the current and future skills scenario for the tourism sector. Importantly, it also builds on previous research such as the European Commission’s Tourism Skills Mapping exercises and Panorama Skills in Tourism and work by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training.

Download the full press release here: NTG Press Release Blueprint Strategy Skills Development in Tourism

Download the blueprint here: Final Next Tourism Generation Blueprint Report