The European project RESET for accessible tourism reaches the halfway point of its development during this semester, thus marking one year since its launch in the coming months. During all these months, EuroFUE-UJI has worked on accessible tourism to develop quality metrics and promote accessibility and the sustainability in the tourism sector, as a partner of this Erasmus+ project in the action “Strategic Partnership in the field of education and training”.
The last transnational meeting of the consortium took place in Baia Mare (Romania) and focused on the quality assessment and the skills of workers to develop accessible tourism. This meeting was attended by all project partners, the New Horizons organization from Tusa (Italy), the Handy Club association for people with disabilities from Ostrava (Czech Republic), the education company Rogepa and the Greek training institute ECTE, together with the EuroFUE-UJI. All coordinated by the Tusa City Council.
Since this last transnational meeting between the partners, the entire consortium has been carrying out studies to determine the skills required by the public to make the tourism sector an accessible and sustainable area. These skills will be determined from the results extracted from the different workshops of debate carried out by all partners.
The EuroFUE-UJI organized two of these workshops. A FOCUS group with residents of FRATER with the aim of giving a voice to people with functional diversity and extracting useful capacities and skills to be included in training courses aimed at tourism and hotel operators. As well as a FOCUS group with future experts in the sector, in which Javier Sánchez, a professor at the UJI specialized in market research, also participated to talk about the future of the sector: tourism that will progressively incorporate technology, tailor-made trips and different, innovative and revolutionary experiences.
Based on all these studies, the members of the RESTAT project will complete their objectives during the next year, creating synergies between the tourism sector and accessibility, in order to create new accessible infrastructure and offer them to people who need them.
