The bar is raised for the formation of the tourism sector. Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, TH Resorts and Ca' Foscari University have signed a memorandum of understanding to encourage the development of the Italian School of Hospitality. An initiative created to promote specialized training programs in a strategic sector for our country, that of tourism.
The Italian School of Hospitality aims to support the diffusion of Italian excellence in hospitality at an international level, promoting training thanks to the attraction of young talents from all over the world together with the development of digitization.
In detail, it is about building a training offer that makes the most of human capital. So as to facilitate the meeting between job supply and demand and training managers capable of directing the actions and strategic choices of the companies in the sector, towards sustainable tourism and hospitality management models on an economic, social and environmental level.
The University of Venice, together with TH Resorts and CDP, will coordinate the design of the educational offer, making its teaching skills and their own academic and professional network. All in favor of the courses developed together with the Italian School of Hospitality, which will become an integral and organic part of the University's educational offer, starting from the 2021-2022 Academic Year.
The first joint initiative will be a cycle of webinars, starting next May 18th, created with Ca' Foscari Challenge School. A series of appointments dedicated to operators that will touch on crucial aspects of the sector, to discuss scenarios and propose viable solutions with respect to the new rules of social interaction and the evolution of the tourism market in the post-Coronavirus.
“We are pleased to start this partnership with Ca' Foscari – he commented Fabrizio Palermo, CEO of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti – which will allow us to focus on the training of high-profile skills, strongly required by the market as they are fundamental for supporting the competitiveness and innovation of companies, more than ever in this difficult moment that the sector is experiencing".
“With this initiative – he declared Michele Bugliesi, Rector of the University of Venice – Ca' Foscari extends its action in a strategic sector through an innovative project, which takes on a particularly important value due to its territorial location. For Venice, hospitality and tourism represent central themes in the debate on the future of the city, also in relation to the tension that the sector's economy generates with respect to the dynamics affecting the residential sector, craftsmanship and, in general, an organic development of the social fabric".
“The threshold of this agreement – he commented Graziano Debellini, president of the Italian Hospitality School Foundation and TH Resorts – comes at a particularly delicate moment for the sector, severely tried by the Covid-19 emergency. In this situation it is even more necessary to invest in training and raise the levels of skills, to manage the hotel industry no longer thanks to intuition or experience alone, but with solid management foundations, essential for trying to overcome this difficult crisis”.
