On Thursday 22nd April 2021, at 15:45-17:00 our partner Breda University of Applied Sciences will participate in (and moderate) the Digital Skills for PostCovid Tourism webinar! If you are interested in attending sign up to the event here.
Authored by Dr. Sheena Carlisle, Stanislav Ivanov and Corné Dijkmans this paper aims to present the findings from a European study on the digital skills gaps in tourism and hospitality companies.
Companies, workers, national, regional, and local authorities, social partners, cross-industry and sectoral organisations, education and training providers, chambers of commerce, and employment services all have a key role to play.
To support a fair and resilient recovery and deliver on the ambitions of the green and digital transitions and of the EU Industrial and SME Strategies, the Commission invites public and private organisations to join forces and take concrete action to upskill and reskill people in Europe.
The Pact is the first of the flagship actions under the European Skills Agenda and is firmly anchored in the European Pillar of Social Rights.
The Pact was officially launched on 10 November 2020.
On Monday November 9th, the fifth European Vocational Skills Week, has kicked off. The online event is organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
During this week from 9-13 November, there will be a series of virtual conferences, workshops, and associated events on topics essential to future skills in tourism. Such as: vocational education and training (VET), lifelong learning, skills and labour market developments.
What are the future skills needs?READ MORE
Louise Dixey from the Next Tourism Generation Project partner, Cardiff Met, featured in a BBC TV and radio program as well as in an online news article on Saturday 17th October 2020. The media coverage focused on the negative impacts of the pandemic on the tourism industry in Wales and how to ensure a lasting recovery. Louise emphasized that Visit Wales has a progressive tourism framework that prioritizes sustainability and that, “Now more than ever, Wales must do everything to ensure tourism in the future supports the wellbeing of local people and future generations to come.” She also highlighted the surge in domestic tourism and the need to disperse visitors away from iconic attractions such as the Snowdown mountain. The NTG project in Wales has worked closely with the Snowdonia National Park to support the development of a Tourism Ambassador skills program.
On the 14th October 2020 the European Commission announced that “if it is not in the plan, it is not in the budget”. Referring to their funding opportunity urging Member States to submit their recovery and resilience plans in order to receive assistance. Tourism must be a key incorporation within the plan, as it is such an important sector within Europe, needing an estimated €161 billion investment to return to pre-COVID 19 levels. “In order to harness the potential of the sector to generate jobs and growth, and to reap the benefits from green and digital transitions” it is important to continue having skills and competencies developed.
Next Tourism Generation key partner Varna University of Management, Bulgaria will represent the project during ‘Travel Academy’, on 09th of October 2020. We will have a short presentation on NTG, including presenting the software/matrices tool and the Toolkits for training, and afterwards, we will discuss with the participants on digital, social and green skills shortage and training in Bulgaria.
The Communication from the European Commission of May 13 on Tourism and transport in 2020 and beyond represents a small but significant milestone for the Next Tourism Generation project. In an official document of one of the most important institutions of the European Union, a prestigious acknowledgement of the importance and value of the project is formally expressed, through the reference that is made to the work we are carrying out and even to our website www.nexttourismgeneration.eu.READ MORE
The INCOME Tourism project aims at developing a new learning approach based on a cooperative learning process joining higher education and tourism businesses applied to soft skills learning to be incorporated in the last year of the Tourism Bachelor (EQF6). Together with Next Tourism Generation Alliance key partner ATLAS, they organize the webinar: perspectives on dual cooperative education.READ MORE