Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Tourism Development (ICT4STD)

The aim of the project is to improve the quality and suitability of knowledge and skills of tourism (and related) major students’ in 4 universities. These will be done by development, testing and implementation of innovative training on usage of ICT in sustainable tourism development.

The main participants of the project are 48 tourism science students that will take part in International Summer Schools run by partner universities and 20 universities teaching staff members who will participate in International Academy of ICT for sustainable development. The seminars that will disseminate project results will be attended by 200 people including higher education sector (students, graduates, universities teaching staff members), government and self-government administration representatives, NGO, media and tourism experts. The most important project’s results are the following:

• Course „ICT as a tool for development and promotion of sustainable tourism development”
• Casebook „Treasury of knowledge”
• A set of 8 e-learning courses for the course
• Educational board game on sustainable tourism development
• Student’s Guidebook and Teacher Toolkit
• Scientific publications

As a result of project’s realization universities educational offer will be extended by new innovative training course „ICT as a tool for development and promotion of sustainable tourism development” which will be the reference model for further development of curricula. The project will also create solid base for international cooperation and exchange of experience in the field of creating sustainable tourism between universities from Poland, Switzerland, Germany and Serbia.