GEM 2025 to Host First PANTOUR International Conference: “Keeping Tourism Competitive”

The future of European tourism takes centre stage this autumn as GEM 2025 proudly hosts the first PANTOUR International Conference in collaboration with ETOA, a flagship event dedicated to equipping tourism professionals with the insights, skills, and strategies needed to stay competitive in a rapidly changing landscape.

Held on Monday, 3 November 2025, this landmark gathering will bring together industry leaders, educators, policymakers, and innovators from across Europe to address the most pressing issues shaping the future of tourism, from artificial intelligence and digital skills to sustainability and the evolving world of work.

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Tourism Education SIG Meeting – Connecting education to new skills and occupations

The transformation of tourism demands new skills and innovative occupational profiles. Within the PANTOUR project, 11 emerging job profiles have been developed to ensure the sector is ready for the digital and green transition. These profiles are designed to guide education and training providers, employers, and policymakers in preparing tourism professionals for the future.

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Webinar 18 September 2025: Emerging occupational profiles in the tourism and hospitality sectors

Thursday 18 September 2025

Outline of the webinar

Join our insightful webinar exploring the emerging job profiles transforming the future of the tourism and hospitality industry. Discover how changing travel preferences, technological advancements, and sustainable practices are creating new opportunities for professionals. Gain valuable insights into the skills and qualifications needed for these innovative roles and learn how businesses can adapt to this dynamic landscape.

The webinar aims to introduce these emerging new profiles, bringing together panellists to discuss the skills need anticipation, this urgent issue of tourism-hospitality sector, focusing on crisis and resilience. The webinar also highlights the new training programs, that focus on eliminating digital, sustainable and social skills gaps.

The New Job Profiles Handbook includes 11 emerging occupational profiles, which will be attractive for the new generation of tourism employers. It aims to ensure that tourism has prepared, competitive employees. Whether you are a job seeker, employer, or industry enthusiast, the new handbook will equip you with the knowledge to stay ahead in the ever-changing tourism-hospitality sector.

Program details

📅 18 September 2025
🕒 14:00 – 15:30 CEST
📍 The webinar is hosted online, subscribers receive a link.

Registration

Registration is closed. If you are still interested to participate please send an email to info@nexttourismgeneration.eu.

Set-up and webinar flow

14:00-14:05 Opening | PANTOUR

14:05-14:15 Welcome | Elfa Kere

14:15-14:25 Introduction to the topic | Dr. Lajos Böröcz

14:25-14:40 The need for New Occupational Profiles and Skills in Europe | Prof. Dr. Jozsef Poor

14:40-14:55 ILO approaches to skills needs anticipation | Alessandra Molz

14:55-15:05 Presentation of the New Occupational Profiles Handbook | Dr. Csilla Jandala

15:05-15:15 New training programmes for skills development | Dr. Altti Näsi

15:15-15:25 Q / A Session | PANTOUR

15:25-15:35 Closing remarks: Summary, next steps and upcoming PANTOUR activities | Ana Maria Camps

Speakers

We proudly introduce our speakers:

Elfa Kere, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

Dr. Lajos Böröcz, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

Prof. Dr. Jozsef Poor, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

Alessandra Molz, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

Dr. Csilla Jandala, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

Dr. Altti Näsi, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

Ana María Camps, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

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Webinar 15 May 2025: Breaking barriers through Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the hospitality and tourism sectors

Outline of the webinar

The tourism and hospitality industry’s recovery from the recent pandemic has demonstrated its resilience. This experience has underscored the critical need for ongoing skilling and training to support workforce well-being and build resilience across the sector. The PANTOUR project places a strong emphasis on training, with a particular focus on equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).

Developing a resilient, skilled, and diverse workforce is essential to the long-term sustainability of tourism and hospitality. In this context, EDI-focused training is not just a value-driven initiative: it is a strategic imperative to attract and retain talent.

This webinar will explore the vital role of EDI in shaping the future of the industry. It will highlight how inclusive workforce practices enhance employee well-being, engagement, and retention. Featuring speakers from European organisations actively involved in EDI skill development, the session will:

• Showcase current initiatives addressing workforce challenges
• Share best practices in embedding EDI across organisations
• Identify barriers and enablers to inclusion
• Discuss strategies for creating fairer, more inclusive workplaces

Join us for an engaging discussion on how EDI can drive positive change in the tourism and hospitality sectors, shared by best practices from:

• Pão a Pão
• Trigon Hotel Group
• Rijksmuseum
• Albergo Etico Roma

Program details

📅 15 May 2025
🕒 16:00 – 17:30 CET
📍 The webinar is hosted on Zoom, subscribers receive a link.

Registration

Regular registration closed on 13 May. If you still wish to attend, please email us at info@nexttourismgeneration.eu to receive the access link.

Set-up and webinar flow

16:00 – 16:10 Welcome and introduction

16:10 – 16:30 An overview of current European insights into EDI training in tourism and hospitality, presented by Pantour

16:30 – 16:40 Best practice presentation by Pão a Pão (Portugal)

16:40 – 16:50 Best practice presentation by Trigon Hotel Group (Ireland)

16:50 – 17:00 Best practice presentation by the Rijksmuseum (The Netherlands)

17:00 – 17:10 Best practice presentation by Albergo Etico Roma (Italy)

17:10 – 17:30 Discussion and final remarks

Speakers

We proudly introduce our speakers:

Diana Lourenço, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

Kathleen Linehan, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

Shivan Shazad, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

Antonio Pelosi

Fernanda Rabelo, click here to go to their LinkedIn page

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The European Tourism Forum invited PANTOUR on stage to discuss the future of work and skills

Ongoing skills initiative to tackle staff shortages was the topic of the panel discussion last week, held in Budapest, Hungary, during the European Tourism Forum. The highest-level tourism trade event was held in collaboration with the Hungarian Council Presidency of the council of the European Union. PANTOUR colleagues Corné Dijkmans from Breda University of Applied Sciences and Klaus Ehrlich from Ruraltour attended the panel discussion to share insights.

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PANTOUR celebrated during Erasmus Days 2024

The #ErasmusDays are an international celebration of the Erasmus+ programme, that took place from 14 to 19 October 2024. During these days, events are organised that celebrate the projects and opportunities proposed by Erasmus+. Open to students, teachers, trainers, professionals, and all citizens, the #ErasmusDays promote the numerous benefits that result from the programme. Throughout the week, both digital and physical events will take place, ranging from seminars, multilingual sessions, photo exhibitions, and conferences, to social media challenges, offering a unique chance to connect with people from diverse backgrounds and learn about different cultures. This year, PANTOUR was celebrated in The Netherlands, at Breda University of Applied Sciences.

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PANTOUR consortium in Chios, Greece

 A big thank you (sas efcharistó polý) to University of the Aegean – Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου, iTED Lab!

#YOURCHIOS is #PANTOURCHIOS

Launch: Sectoral Tourism Skills Intelligence Monitoring System

Just Launched: The PANTOUR Sectoral Skills Intelligence Monitor (SSIM).

The SSIM consists of a toolkit for collecting and analysing data to assess skills and address skills gaps on the level of the tourism and hospitality sector. The SSIM for the tourism sector is designed to identify current and future workforce skills in order to enable evidence-based decision-making around workforce strategies required to achieve sustained organisational performance and to build a capable workforce. Workforce skills, in the broadest sense, are the capabilities, competencies, qualities, talents, and knowledge that enable people to perform successfully in the labour market.

Read more and download the guide on how to set-up Skills Monitoring in Tourism.