On October 9, the Next Tourism Generation Alliance partner, Cardiff Met, attended a Visit Wales Roadshow to learn of the new tourism strategy 2020-2025. The roadshow for the South-East region of Wales was held at Miskin Manor which has Green Key accreditation. READ MORE
“Employment in tourism in the digital age” was the central theme of the conference organised by SEGITTUR on World Tourism Day at the Impact Hub Madrid on 27 September. Our Next Tourism Generation Alliance key partner CEHAT presented the efforts of the Alliance.
The aim of this conference was to analyse how employment is evolving in the tourism sector, which has been undergoing a digital transformation in recent years, making it necessary for staff to develop new skills to respond to the needs of the sector.READ MORE
The Next Tourism Generation Alliance project leader Silvia Barbone from Federturismo Confindustria will be present at the OECD get together in Paris on Wednesday 2 October. The OECD is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. During this meeting, Silvia will give an update on the progress of the NTG project at the “Preparing the tourism workforce for the digital future” session. Furthermore, the emphasis will be on the explanation of the preparation of the European Commission’s Blueprint for Sectoral Co-operation on Skills. READ MORE
On September 12, the Hungarian Spa Tourism Association organized the Spa Tourism Manpower Workshop where managers and employees of thermal hotels and spa’s and higher educational institutes gathered together. Our Next Tourism Generation Alliance key partner VIMOSZ attended the workshop and presented the current state of affairs of NTG.READ MORE
On Friday 20th September, INCOME Tourism and the Next Tourism Generation Alliance organize a Webinar on the main theme ‘Tourism Education, Employability and Industry – University interaction’. This webinar will be hosted by the University of Girona at the ATLAS Annual Conference. This event is organized by NTG key partner ATLAS.
The NTG partners will gather together in Madrid in order to discuss the progress of the project at the 4th NTG Consortium meeting. The past semester will be reviewed and upcoming action plans will be considered and explained to all the key partners. READ MORE
The Next Tourism Generation Alliance (NTG) will have a public dissemination event in Madrid on the 11th of September. WTO and the Minister of Tourism in Spain will be involved in the event.
More information will follow soon.
On June 13, 2019, Dineke Koerts from Breda University of Applied Sciences presented several insights of the Next Tourism Generation Alliance (NTG) project at the ATLAS Africa Conference in Uganda, organized by NTG key partner ATLAS. READ MORE
On May 24, the Next Tourism Generation Alliance (NTG) was present at the Travel Challenge 2019, where Tourism Education and the Industry both from The Netherlands gathered together in order to discuss the first outcomes of the NTG desk and field research at the first NTG Travel Café. Lobke Elbers, representative of NTG on behalf of Breda University of Applied Sciences shared the main outcomes of the surveys and interviews that were being conducted among the eight European partner countries with the top of the Dutch Travel organizations such as KLM, ANWB, Corendon and many more representatives of the tourism industry. READ MORE
Friday, September 20, 2019, Next Tourism Generation key partner ATLAS organizes the ATLAS Annual Conference 2019 in Girona, Spain, co-organized with NTG and the INCOME tourism project. During this event, professionals from the tourism industry, tourism education and governments will gather together in order to talk about the needs in tourism education. READ MORE