The Secretary of State for Tourism, Joan Mesquida, and the Rector of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Félix Faura Mateu, have signed an agreement on training and tourism research.
By signing this agreement, four-year period, both parties agree to cooperate when conducting outreach activities, training and research in tourism.
This is the third such agreement that is signed with a Spanish university after initialed with the Universities of Alicante and Madrid Nebrija.
The signing of the agreement between the central Tourism Administration and the Technical University of Cartagena provide some channels for the joint outreach activities, training and research in tourism, among which are the following:
Foster collaboration to further training and research related to tourism.
Promoting specific agreements between the two institutions that promote the advancement of tourism.
The promotion of seminars and courses to enable a better positioning of tourism from the economic and business perspective.
Leave open the possibility of developing another type of investigative nature activities that result in mutual benefit and to help develop the commitments made under the Tourism Plan Horizon 2020.
Through this collaboration agreement, will develop specific agreements for the collection of projects or programs and specific actions that will determine the aims, the work program and means for its realization.
Collaboration with Universities
The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade has opted for collaboration with Spanish universities.
In this sense, has joined 14 universities set up under the Network University Graduate in Tourism (RED Intur), with the aim of promoting scientific and technological research in the tourism industry through the Internet.
As part of this collaboration was born an information system on scientific research tourism, called SICTUR, consisting of pooling in Internet-thematic research, participants, contact information, each department's research universities.
Knowledge and innovation are cornerstones in the strategy of the Ministry of Tourism.
In this context, there has been progress in the implementation of the Integrated Network of Knowledge and Tourism Intelligence (Intelitur), together with the Council of Chambers (CSC), a tool that will make available to all stakeholders knowledge generated in tourism, both public and private.
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia