Turismo de Portugal launches Digital Academy

Turismo de Portugal has just launched the Digital Academy, an online platform developed to face the growing demand for training in this area, offering courses, workshops, seminars and training services tailored to 12 Portugal tourism schools.

Disponível em academiadigital.turismodeportugal.pt, this new platform will also manage all Executive Training provided by Turismo de Portugal and its Schools, facilitating access for users, que, after an initial registration, will be able to enroll in all actions and initiatives that are of interest to them.

Since the beginning of 2020, Turismo de Portugal organized a total of 567 online training actions for more than 56 thousand participants. Em 18 semanas, were given 168 Executive Training actions certified online, com 7.624 participantes, 145 Clean training actions & Safe para 23.130 participantes, online consultancy available to 359 companies and were promoted 256 BEST Live Online Training actions for 25.340 participantes.

For the academic year 2020/2021, as 12 Tourism Schools in Portugal received 2.923 applications for a total of 1.740 vacancies, with some courses registering a demand above 450% in view of the number of vacancies, examples of courses taught in English: Culinary Arts, Hospitality Operations Management e Food & Beverage Management.

Focused on promoting the development of people and the training of companies, Turismo de Portugal developed this new solution to facilitate access to information, contribute to improving the training experience and, sobretudo, the acquired knowledge.