PM4SD Summer School

Description

The 2018 edition will be a major EU event in partnership with the Next Tourism Generation Alliance consortium led by Federturismo Confindustria, and in collaboration with FEST Foundation for European Sustainable Tourism, ETC European Travel Commission, the Blue Community Consortium and Villages Nature ® Paris as key partners.

The 2018 Summer School is the first public event for the EU initiative Next Tourism Generation Alliance (NTG), and the selected theme is: “Skills, Careers and Strategic Alliances for Sustainable tourism”. NTG is the first European partnership and alliance to create transformative cooperation for skills and careers between education and industry in five key tourism sub-sectors: hospitality, food and beverage operations, travel agencies and tour operators, visitor attractions and destination management

The event will be held from the 9th to the 12th of October to celebrate the one year Anniversary of the Opening of Villages Nature ® Paris.

It will take place at Villages Nature ® Paris located adjacent the Davy Crockett Ranch in Euro Disney and adjacent to two national forests, is a green destination in the heart of nature.

Villages Nature Paris, a joint venture with Pierre et Vacances and Euro Disney, it excels as a model for sustainable tourism using primely geothermal energy, sending zero waste to landfill, having no automobiles in the Village, and more. The resort also prioritizes sourcing local food, using fair trade products, practicing water conservation, and protecting biodiversity.

Villages Natures is said to be the most sustainable tourism resort in the world. It recently received the World Hospitality award for Best Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility Initiative.

The event is for tourism leaders and destinations, planners, trainers, funders, policy makers, academics, students and entrepreneurs. It brings together key representatives of the tourism sector: donors, representatives of European and international organizations, policy makers, industry representatives, project management practitioners, academics, planners, investors and entrepreneurs.

Date : 10/2018

Client Name : FEST - Foundation for European Sustainable Tourism

Category : Sustainability / Innovation / Events

Project link : http://www.summerschool.festfoundation.eu/

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