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.
Read the full interview with AnaMaria Camps (project leader PANTOUR) here.
travelyric
May 11, 2026 at 6:13 PMIt’s interesting that after four years of research they found the same skills pop up across different job roles—makes you wonder if tourism training should focus more on transferable competencies rather than role-specific tasks. The Blueprint Strategy sounds like a solid foundation, but I’d love to see how the EU plans to actually implement those recommendations on the ground.