14a:T51e,The Next Tourism Generation Alliance (NTG) is the first European partnership for building and improving a collaborative relationship between education and industry with regard to skills development in the fields of digital, green, and social skills. The NTG Alliance will provide employees, employers, entrepreneurs, teachers, trainers and students with a set of core modules in digital, green and social skills.

Project Scope:
a) To establish a Blueprint Strategy for Sectoral Skills Development in Tourism to respond to the fast changing and increasing skills gaps in digital, green and social skills sets.

b) To define a scalable mechanism and model for sustainable and digital curricula between the industry and education providers at regional, national and European level.

c) To create transformative cooperation in five key tourism sub-sectors: hospitality, food and beverage operations, travel agencies and tour operators, visitor attractions and destination management.

d) To develop, deliver and test Next Tourism Generation (NTG) Skills Products for professionals, trainers, students, university tourism departments, local authorities, companies to respond to the fast changing and increasing skills gaps in digital, green and social skills sets
14b:T77f,

Corné is specialising in human capital development in tourism & hospitality, with a focus on digital skills. He holds a PhD in Communication Science (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), a MSc in Business Economics (Tilburg University) and a MSc in Marketing Management (TIAS School for Business and Society). He is involved in a wide variety of international projects aimed at enhancing competences within the tourism & hospitality sector and the reinforcement of human capital. Furthermore, Corné is author of several books in the field of online tourism and developer of international online business simulations, used in higher education institutes across Europe. His contributions to the field are well-recog

Next Tourism Generation Alliance

Corné Dijkmans

Dineke Koerts

Tomas Mainil

Lobke Elbers

Lorainne van Liere

Rose de Vrieze - McBean

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