GAP – Games for Participatory Tourism 

PROJECT NUMBER: 2021-1-DE02-KA220-VET-000027985
TIMESPAN OF THE PROJECT: 01/02/2022 – 31/01/2025
FINANCING PROGRAM: Erasmus+

Objectives

The project aims to:

  • Fostering innovation and sustainability in tourism
  • Promoting tourism as a tool for individual and community development
  • Fostering participatory tourism and bottom-up promotion of territories
  • Adapting vocational education and training of tourism professionals to labour market needs
  • Contributing to innovation in vocational education and training for tourism professionals
  • Increasing tourism professionals’ knowledge in the field of sustainable tourism planning and tourism gamification
  • Increasing the ability of tourism professionals of implementing participatory processes in tourism development
  • Raising stakeholders’ awareness concerning tourism sustainability
  • Increasing coordination and stakeholders’ involvement in tourism planning and development
  • Fostering civic engagement, sense of belonging and participation of residents to tourism development

Activities

The project will engage in the following activities:

  • Development of an Online Course: create an online course tailored for stakeholders in participatory tourism, heritage, and gamification
  • Creation of an Urban Game using a mobile app platform, that will provide augmented touristic information to users
  • Replicability Guide aimed at promoting the adoption of participatory approaches and gamification in tourism development processes

Results

The project will generate the following outcomes:

  • Research on participatory tourism and gamification including: 
    • A working paper on Tourism sustainability 
    • A working paper on gamification in Tourism
  • Fill the GAP including: 
    • An online learning platform 
    • An online course on participatory tourism, heritage and gamification
  • Participation in practice 
  • A technical guide on the urban game functioning for stakeholders 
  • 5 urban games 
  • A report on “How to use gamification and participatory approaches to foster sustainable tourism development”

Partners

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