Vocational Education and Training is now at the core of many international development strategies and objectives such as United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals that aims by 2030 to “ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university”, and to “Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning”. Vocational Education and Training is even more important considering the two recent phenomena namely a) youth experience gap that recognize how “despite ever increasing educational attainment […] young people lack the other two components of human capital, namely generic and job-specific work experience. It is in fact with the aim to fill what one could call the ‘youth experience gap’ that they move in and out of employment in search for the best job-worker match”; b) Work experience trap: Bell and Blanchflower (2015) noted that “[…] this lack of work experience may generate an experience trap, whereas firms are in search for experienced workers, which prevents young people from gaining the work experience that firms require”. To this purpose DualTour has been conceived in order to promote a transnational cooperation of high-qualified institution from the public and private sector and generate a systemic change in which the dual system is implemented in the countries involved and innovate the tourism sector around the pillars of sustainability, inclusiveness and digital dimension.
Vocational Education and Training is now at the core of many international development strategies and objectives such as United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals that aims by 2030 to “ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university”, and to “Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning”. Vocational Education and Training is even more important considering the two recent phenomena namely a) youth experience gap that recognize how “despite ever increasing educational attainment […] young people lack the other two components of human capital, namely generic and job-specific work experience. It is in fact with the aim to fill what one could call the ‘youth experience gap’ that they move in and out of employment in search for the best job-worker match”; b) Work experience trap: Bell and Blanchflower (2015) noted that “[…] this lack of work experience may generate an experience trap, whereas firms are in search for experienced workers, which prevents young people from gaining the work experience that firms require”. To this purpose DualTour has been conceived in order to promote a transnational cooperation of high-qualified institution from the public and private sector and generate a systemic change in which the dual system is implemented in the countries involved and innovate the tourism sector around the pillars of sustainability, inclusiveness and digital dimension.