Tour2Include

Objectives of the Project

The specific Objectives of the Tour2Include Project include:

• To identify the professions/positions where migrants could be better fit
• To support low-skilled migrants in order to acquire the necessary hard and soft/intercultural skills and competencies
• To develop training programmes and materials targeted to the needs of migrants and their tutors.
• To offer better career perspectives to migrants who work or wish to work in the Tourism Sector
• To increase migrants’ employability in the Tourism Sector
• To enhance migrants’ integration into EU societies through their inclusion into the labour market

Expected Main Results

The results described below derive from all project activities.

1. Development of a self-assessment tool
2. Design of migrants-oriented training materials for the identified tourism-related professions / positions
3. Development of an online platform, which will incorporate digital learning materials, lectures, “e-classrooms” and interim and final tests
4. Development of two training courses; one for tutors/trainers; the other for low-skilled migrants
5. Implementation of two pilot training sessions

Project Activities

• National and Transnational Reports on the status of migrant’s employment in the tourism industry in the respective participating countries produced
• Common methodological approach focusing on typical and intercultural skills required by migrants in the identified tourism-related professions designed
• Self-assessments of migrants working or expiring to work in the tourism industry started

Project Roadshow

• 14 November 2019: Berlin, Germany, Project Kick-off
• November 2019 – April 2020: Mapping of Tourism related professions where low-skilled migrants are mostly occupied
• National Reports and Transnational Report related to IO 1 can be downloaded here
• 11 June 2020: Due to the COVID 19 the 2nd transnational Meeting was held by Zoom. You can find the press release here