Up-skilling operators for sustainable tourism

This small-scale project was intended to be a first approach to a very current topic. The aim was to create a partnership starting from the bottom, trying to join forces and undertake a path that ...

This small-scale project was intended to be a first approach to a very current topic. The aim was to create a partnership starting from the bottom, trying to join forces and undertake a path that must always be supported by greater investments, to raise awareness among operators in the tourism sector of the importance of implementing sustainable policies in the tourist offer. This is with the aim of immediately contributing to the fight against climate change through more sustainable actions: enhancing local productions and developing territories that remain outside the more traditional tourist destinations, but can offer valuable experiences to a new generation of tourists more and more sensitive to these themes. The aim we intended to achieve was to create educational material that could support tourism operators in raising awareness, training them on the opportunities and sharing of good practices relating to sustainable tourism. Certainly all those who were involved in the creation of the contents and who shared their knowledge, skills and good practices benefited from the exchange itself, had the opportunity to reflect on their resources and created new relationships for further development of their activities.

All the activities foreseen by the project have been implemented: E-learning platform: a platform has been created in the three languages of the partnership (Italian, Greek, Bulgarian) plus English. The platform hosts a presentation page of the project and the partnership with objectives and contents. The platform hosts also a section in which three sets of videos for self-learning are visible. The videos delve into the three themes of sustainable tourism and good practices chosen by the partners. food and territory Reduce co2 emissioni in tourist travel Practices for raising environmental awarness of travellers a third section is dedicated to the discussion forum relating to the proposed topics. Each activity will be described in the specific section.

For the project, guidelines were created for the production of videos in order to be uniform and guarantee the same standard. Five videos have been created that delve into five different aspects of three main themes of sustainable tourism: Food and territory (by VAHR the Bulgarian partner) Reduce CO2 emissions in tourist travel (by UP2YOU the Italian partner) Practices for raising environmental awareness of travelers (by Eurocollege the Cypriot partner) At the same time, the online platform was created by Asteres to host the videos and the discussion forum. All the partners worked in synergy to get the results of the project also in the technical creation of the videos and subtitles in all the languages. They also worked to find technical solutions and therefore increase their own skills.