The project GAP aims to foster the transition towards more sustainable models of tourism by studying good practices, developing trainings, and creating urban games. This 3 years partnership is funded by Erasmus + programme. GAP aims to pursue the following general objectives:
- Fostering innovation and sustainability in tourism
- Fostering participatory tourism and bottom-up promotion of territories
Objectives
- Adapting vocational education and training of tourism professionals to labour market needs
- Contributing to innovation in vocational education and training for tourism professionals
- Increasing tourism professionals’ knowledge in the field of sustainable tourism planning and tourism gamification
- Increasing the ability of tourism professionals of implementing participatory processes in tourism development
- Raising stakeholders’ awareness concerning tourism sustainability
- Increasing coordination and stakeholders’ involvement in tourism planning and development
- Fostering civic engagement, sense of belonging and participation of residents to tourism development
Results
Project result 1 – State of the art (research)
Firstly, the desk research will establish a study on participatory tourism and gamification. During this first phase, the consortium will carry out research aimed at identifying inspiring practices in the field of participatory tourism, gamification, and environmental sustainability,
Project result 2 – Fill the gap
The second phase of the project will consist in developing an online course for stakeholders in the field of participatory tourism, heritage and gamification. This course will aim at enhancing knowledge on the topic and at addressing the need for a more adequate training.
Project result 3 – Participatory labs and creation of an urban game
The third step of this project will be the co-creation of an urban game reflecting the results of the studies and of the trainings. The final result could consist in an app, thanks to the technical support of the partners specialized in development of games and of apps.
News
In September the Participatory Labs on Sustainable Tourism around Palermo, Italy!
The project GAP (project n. 2021-1-DE02-KA220-VET-000027985) dives into the heart of its activities with the participatory labs, which will allow the discovery of the city of Palermo through urban games and gamification! After being involved in an urban game focused...
In Prague to Unveiling the Potential of Gamification
Have you ever thought about being able to learn about a city, by playing? A training course in Prague has just concluded where our future trainers hosted by Mise HERo learned about gamification techniques and how it can be used as an engagement tool in participatory...
Piloting and Evaluation of the online platform
Our Italian partner Accademia IRSEI proceeds with the testing of the e-learning platform, 15 participants were involved with the aim of getting acquainted with the platform, registering, and trying to the courses to evaluate its performance and contents. The...
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