With a view to promoting a growth in the professions of the tourism sector, the TREND project aimed at the acquisition by the target group involved (210 students of fourth classes of the sending schools of the Consortium) of specialist skills suitable for the development of the TOURISM sector. The OBJECTIVES of the project have been: - Give to the participants the opportunity to acquire innovative PROFESSIONAL SKILLS in the management of the hospitality and hotel businesses (at the management level, promotion and enhancement of the business); - Develop SOFT-SKILLS and LINGUISTIC, DIGITAL and entrepreneurship competences in the participants, necessary for operating in the tourism and hospitality industry which today requires more and more personalized tourism products (culture, art, landscape and food and wine itineraries); - Introduce new knowledge, strategies and techniques of the TOURISM INDUSTRY in the curricula of VET Schools, so that they can be more and more responsive to the needs of businesses and professions; - Strengthen COORDINATION and SYNERGIES between public bodies, educational institutions, organizations and companies operating in the hospitality sector to boost the tourism economy and employment in the sector.
The National Consortium of the "TREND - New skills for experiential, personalized and integrated tourism" project, led by the VET School Stringher from Udine, was made up of VET sending schools (hospitality and catering industry), members of the Re.Na.IA Network (National Network of Tourism and Catering Schools) and intermediary organizations that represented the highest levels of the VET system and the tourism and hospitality sector, with the common objective to promote new professional skills that can be spent on the labor market, in particular of the TOURISM and HOSPITALITY sector, which is confirmed to be the sector for which the experience of transnational mobility can have particularly positive effects both on the development of technical/professional and linguistic skills of the participants and on the working contexts of the regional territories involved in the project.