The main objective of the project lays in the production of comprehensive educational materials for adult educators that will allow them to promote and organise smart tourism development among municipalities, tourism organisations and businesses that are active in tourism development. This objective will be achieved by reaching a number of smaller goals, namely - organisation of needs analysis, development of curriculum and educational methodologies, development of course materials in downloadable format, development of e-Learning course and internationalisation of educational materials, i.e. their translation into the languages of the partnership from English. At the end the course materials on smart tourism development will be available in two major languages (English and German) and the languages of the rest of the consortium (Bulgarian, Polish, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian). The project will also produce 70 trained adult educators via its learning, teaching, training activities and at least 270 participants of multiplier events where the project results will be disseminated.
There are several reasons why the partnership applied for the project. First is the fact that all the partners of the project are actively working with education in the area of tourism development. Second, all the project partners are also actively involved in educational activities, whether these are universities or adult learning activities. Most importantly, though, the project consortium organised a survey that clearly showed a lack of education towards smart solutions in tourism that is why the decision was taken to prepare an educational project that will promote these solutions in particular and prepare educational materials for adult learners that will focus specifically on smart tourism development.