Tourism occupations seeking digital and green transition worldwide

With support from the ‘École d'Hôtellerie et de Tourisme Paul Dubrule’ in Cambodia and the Boma International Hospitality College in Kenya, SFUVET is leading the BILT Expert Group (Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET) on behalf of UNESCO-UNEVOC. After around four months, SFUVET representatives presented the BILT Expert Group’s first results at the  BILT Bridging Event ‘TVET for Hospitality and Tourism: Solutions for the Digital and Green Transition’.

Good-practice examples

So far, the BILT Expert Group has identified the current green and digital trends in the tourism and hospitality sector and described skill needs which have been determined on this basis. How such new green and digital skills are identified and integrated into curricula differs in the various countries of the three BILT regions Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe. Which and how learning locations support learners with skills development also varies. So far around 40 good-practice examples have been collected by the experts to allow experiences to be benefited from jointly.

Report expected at the end of the year

At their fourth working group meeting, experts started to set out recommendations. This work will be continued in the two remaining meetings in August and September. All results will also be set out in a publication the first draft version of which will be presented at the BILT Learning Forum in Bonn at the end of October 2023. The final report will be published at the end of the year.

The BILT Expert Group carries out its activities as part of the BILT project. The Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET (BILT) project is implemented by UNESCO-UNEVOC with support of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) and sponsored by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).