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In Accommodations, Blog, Destination management, Digital skills, Food & Beverage, Hospitality, Travel agencies & Tour operators, Visitor attractions

Ultimate transformation: How will robots, artificial intelligence and service automation disrupt the tourism and hospitality industries?

At the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, the GDSs (Global Distribution Systems), Internet, social media, websites and mobile applications, made the world smaller and changed the rules of the business and competition among travel, tourism and hospitality companies. Now the tourism industry is facing a new revolution, one more powerful, transformative and with longer-term implications than the previous changes. Tourism is entering the robotics era. Stanislav Ivanov from NTG key partner Varna University of Management, wrote an interesting blog on this matter.READ MORE

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October 28, 2019
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In Accommodations, Blog, Destination management, Digital skills, Food & Beverage, Hospitality, Travel agencies & Tour operators, Visitor attractions

Challenge your digital self-learning skills: become a visual designer

Digital self-learning skills are very important in different tourism sub-sectors and go hand in hand with the different skill sets that the Next Tourism Generation (NTG) Alliance focuses on. Based on the NTG interview research outcomes, self-learning is ‘a must’ when it comes to being employed in the tourism industry. READ MORE

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October 15, 2019
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In Blog, Education, Social skills

“Discover Tourism” for primary school pupils in Wales

Cardiff Met is the Wales partner in the Next Tourism Generation (NTG) Alliance that aims to increase collaboration between industry and education to prioritise digital and sustainability skills gaps as well as enhance the image of careers in tourism and hospitality. The identification of best practice that can be replicated in Wales and further afield is paramount and the launch of a ground-breaking online tourism resource for primary schools ticks all the boxes. ‘Discover Tourism’ was developed through multi-stakeholder collaboration and promotes tourism skills, quality career prospects and sustainability on the island of Anglesey. To learn more about this exciting initiative, Louise Dixey from Cardiff Met interviewed Ffion Jones, a Senior Researcher at the North Wales Regional Skills Partnership.READ MORE

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October 15, 2019
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