DTOUR project is a KA202 – Strtegic Partnerships for vocational education and training project (01.12.2020 – 30.04.2023), co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, which consists of eight partners from five different countries (Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Sweden and the UK) and is coordinated by "Dimitra Education & Consulting", a Greek VET (Vocational Education & Training) organization.

The project is seeking to train and certify professionals in Tourism & Hospitality with up-to-date digital skills, namely dTour advisors, in order to boost SMEs’ performance in Tourism and Hospitality. The advisors could be people that have been already working in the Tourism and Hospitality sector, and would like to enhance their skills and employment opportunities. They could also be owners and operators of SMEs that understand the need for digitalisation and would like to bring their own business to the new digital era, business consultants that are already working or are interested to cooperate with SMEs in the sector etc. Furthermore, the project gives Tourism & Hospitality SMEs the opportunity to navigate through new digital technologies and tools they could use for their businesses and understand how they can benefit from it.

The project will lead to following innovative elements:

• An occupational Profile for dTour Advisors, in accordance to EQF.
• A training programme based on the developed Occupational Profile that will be validated by the final users during the course of the project.
• A blended Learning Course for training d Tour Advisors in consulting Tourism SME’s to develop plans and proceed with the digitalisation in order to use their new acquired knowledge to facilitate boosting the performance of Tourism and Hospitality SMEs.
• A certification scheme that will give the Advisors the chance to get certified for their competences.
• A navigation guide, e-book, that will promote dTour training to SME's & will aim to enable all SMEs related to Tourism and Hospitality sector to get to know various digital technologies and tools that are used in the sector.

Impact and long-term benefits:

• Promotion of European Cooperation among various countries
• Create new employment paths for Advisors in Tourism and Hospitality Digitalisation.
• Provide complementary and sustainable development options for professionals.
• Boost the performance of SME's in Tourism and Hospitality.
• Offer new approaches to identified issues and needs.
• Developed training tools and materials that will be open for the public to use.
• New certification scheme to remain after the end of the project.

Partners of the project are: RINOVA limited, DIMITRA, MMC – Management Mediterranean Centre, Larnaca Tourism Board, Magnesias Chamber, ACTA – Aristotle Certification Training and Assessment, Folkuniversitetet, INVAT-TUR – Valencial Institute of Tourism Technologies

The DTour project is implemented with the support of the European Commission.