<< Background >>In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on the European tourist sector in general, it is vital that appropriate policies and measures are taken at the local level across Europe to ensure that the new, post-pandemic tourism industry becomes competitive and relevant to needs and expectations of future visitors. Both digital experiences and sustainability are key issues for many tourists today when deciding which cities and countries they want to visit, and so we believe that these two issues hold a great potential for development in the respective partners’ local ecosystems. To take advantage of such a potential, it is necessary for local officials together with tourist organizations and professionals in toursit sector to get upskilled through innovative continuing education and training.<< Objectives >>General Objective:•To increase the digital skills of the actors in the field of sustainable tourism while promoting new learning pathways in order to contribute to the recovery of the sector.Specific Objectives:•To identify gaps in the skills of the local business actors and develop training solutions accordingly;•To develop re-scalable training solutions for business actors in the field of tourism related to new digital solutions to be applied locally;•To improve cooperation between the local authority and the business actors by developing a learning ecosystem focused on sustainable tourism.<< Implementation >>The project implmentation will be based on the following activities•Project coordination meetings (M1-M15-M30) (Vänersborg, Rijeka, SERN) and online coorindation meetings•A transnational seminar aimed at discussing the results of the survey and at exchanging practices•Peer review activities between representatives of the local ecosystems of the partners•the organisation of 3 multiplier events to promote and disseminate the project results•Joint work for the achivement of the project results: A map of the training needs of the local ecosystem, a C-VET training package for sustainable tourism professionals, a guide for follow-up activities at ecosystem level. By organizing the different methodologies and training activities under a mutual partnership like in this project, the participants will help each other work towards common solutions and shared objectives in a more effective manner than what would otherwise be possible if they were to do it on their own domestically.<< Results >>The project will have the following outcomes In relation to the first objective: to identify existing gaps in the skills of the local business actors in the field of sustainable tourism, the expected outcomes and results will be:-A Map of the digital training needs the local sustainable tourism ecosystem will be created-Increased knowledge about the training needs of the professionals and civil servants -Improved understanding of the local ecosystem digital skills gapsIn relation to the Specific Objective 2: To develop re-scalable training solutions for business actors in the field of tourism related to new digital solutions to be applied locally, the expected outcomes and results will be: - Improved digital skills among local business actors in the field of sustainable tourism;- A Better use of open data at local level among civil servants and professional;- A set of new training contents developed ;- Best practices discussed exchanged; - Peer review methodolgy shared among partner and modelled to the specificity of the business sector;- A Training package for the actors of the local sustainable tourism ecosystem is createdIn relation to the third specific obejctive i.e. to improve cooperation between the local authority and the business actors by developing a learning ecosystem focussed on sustainable tourism, the expected outcomes and results will be:- Increased contacts between the local ecosystem and the municipalities- A long-term approach to C-VET and learning at local ecosystem level adopted in the partner organisations- Improved knowledge of decision-makers about the local ecosystem -Guidelines for follow-up activities and continuous upskilling of the local ecosystem on sustainable tourism developed