Teachers’ Digital Skills in Tourism Sector to Tackle the Challenges of Tourism Enterprises

Abstract

There is need to equip teachers in the tourism sector with the necessary skills for being able to promote entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among pupils. This paper defines eight key competences and describes the essential knowledge, skills and attitudes related to each of these. The eight key competences important for social and work life today, are considered corner stone and starting point, for development of a learning outcomes matrix in the tourism sector. These have then been condensed and transferred into four specific tourism competence clusters to equip teachers and trainers working in the tourism sector with necessary skills for the delivery of transversal skills such as entrepreneurship education as well as key competences on knowing about how to tackle challenges tourism enterprises face. The four clusters are: Entrepreneurship skills focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and skills in the rural tourism development related to Small Medium Enterprises, Intercultural competences, and Digital skills. Further the learning outcomes to the curriculum for Digital skills cluster are detailed.