language course; tour guides; online learning; mobile platform
intercultural competences, catalogue with methods, e-learning, vocational education
employability, training, professional development, digital skills
digital transition, green transition, upskilling, reskilling
digital transition, micro-credentials, micro courses, validation
VALITS’ PRESS RELEASE 2 - December 2017
VALITS project progresses. Over 530 human resource professionals, employers and managers have been involved in assessing which are the most valued transversal skills in tourism and in different sectors. In the next step the Validation Tool will be developed.
The VALITS project is developing the VALITS Validation Tool for informal skills of seasonal workers in the tourism sector.
VALTIS’ PRESS RELEASE 1, February 2017
From 30th to 31st January 2017 the Kick-Off-Meeting of ERASMUS+ project VALITS – Validating Transversal Skills of young workers in seasonal tourism work – was held in Saalfelden, Austria near Salzburg.
VALidating Informal Transversal Skills of young workers in seasonal tourism
Project number: 2016-1-ES01-KA202-025068
Implementation period: 01.12.2016 – 30.11.2018
Project description: The issue of seasonality in tourism has long been a source of concern expressed in EU publications and it is feared that the intense concentration of touristic activities in a relatively short period of time “may have dramatic negative impact on local economies for the whole year” (Ecorys, 2013).
The main objective of the VALITS project is to help young seasonal workers break the cycle of high season activity followed by low season unemployment. This will happen by creating a tool for validating their informal transversal skills which include key competences such as language skills, interpersonal skills, customer service and organizational skills and that have been gained through their informal and non-formal work experience and learning.
The current stage of the development of GOLIC GUIDE Project - Guide to linguistic competence for tourist guides and tour leaders (2014-1-PL01-KA202-003400) has come to a successful end. The organisations from the five partner countries worked hard in order to develop and adapt attractive Guide with good practices and examples when dealing with foreign tourists. The Guide contains 60 good practices and examples (12 for each partner country) describing different aspects from the tourist guide’s job – proper and improper reactions in different situations; dealing with problems; improving the service; etc. The collection also presents various cultural and social specifics of different nations and countries with which every professional tourist guide should be familiar.
Newsletter III
The 3rd partnership meeting
We are happy to inform you that the third international partnership meeting took place in Berlin, on 8th and 9th October, this year. The meeting was attended by 16 representatives from all partner organizations.
What did we do?
One of the main objectives of the meeting was to establish a clear division of tasks in the further process of creating content for language courses for tourist guides. Partners agreed on the details of the structure of the modules and types of exercises. Because of different subjects of the modules, the structure may slightly differ but there will be always 5 common elements: audio recording/audio scripts, a listening task, vocabulary exercises, grammar exercises, a pronunciation exercise. More details can be found in “GOLIC modules” section.
