SAVE THE DATE: Policy event Sustainable Tourism Training for Tomorrow

Mark your calendars for this final event within the ERASMUS+ project Sustainable Tourism Training for Tomorrow.

How can we upskill to ensure sustainable tourism that is good for people, good for business and good for nature in the covid world?

• 17th of June
• 9:00 CET
• Online

Join the EUROPARC Federation and partners of the Sustainable Tourism Training for Tomorrow Erasmus+ project to discuss, debate and discover what new skills, knowledge and training is needed, to ensure we have sustainable tourism for tomorrow.

We will hear from European politicians, the European Commission as well as practitioners from our Protected Areas in Europe. Dr Anna Spenceley, CEO STAND Ltd; Chair IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group; Director, Global Sustainable Tourism Council will offer her global perspective.

Registrations will open two weeks before the event

ERASMUS+ Sustainable Tourism Training for Tomorrow project

The ERASMUS+ Sustainable Tourism: Training for Tomorrow” project aims to build the capacity of professionals in the field of sustainable tourism. The project runs for a period of 30 months and will finish this year. Funded through the ERASMUS+ Key Action 2 (Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices and Strategic partnerships in the field of education and training), the project brought together partners working on different fields in the sustainable tourism sector:

• 2 universities: The Hasselt University (BE), who is also the project leader, and the University of Hull (UK)
• The network of European Protected Areas: EUROPARC Federation (DE)
• The network of ecotourism professionals in Spain: Asociacion de Ecoturismo en Espana (ES)
• 2 park authorities: Ente Parchi Emilia Occidentale (IT) and Montagne de Reims Nature Regional Park (FR)

Federparchi – EUROPARC Italy and the French Federation of Regional Nature Parks are also engaged in the project as associated project partners.