{"id":6796,"date":"2024-01-08T03:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T03:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=33132"},"modified":"2024-01-08T03:55:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T03:55:17","slug":"winners-of-unwto-students-league-grand-final-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/winners-of-unwto-students-league-grand-final-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of UNWTO Students League Grand Final Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"Winners<\/a>Madrid, Spain, January 2, 2024 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The 2022-2023 UNWTO Students\u2019 League concluded with a celebration of young tourism talent. The Grand Final of the flagship event for supporting students in tourism bought together high School and undergraduate students from Switzerland and Bosnia & Herzegovina.<\/p>\n

Tourism for rural development challenge<\/h2>\n

The 2022-2023 Students’ League challenged students to create support rural development through tourism by creating Instagram accounts to promote a rural destination in their countries.<\/p>\n

For this Grand Final, the jury panel was made up of national and international experts from UNWTO, Academia and private sector stakeholders. In making their decision, the expert jury judged elements such as innovation, and feasibility of the idea as well as their potential to contribute to the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n

The winning team in the High School category was\u00a0Team Rose Brandis<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0Mje\u0161ovita srednja \u0161kola Travnik<\/strong>\u00a0in Bosnia & Herzegovina. In the Undergraduate category, the jury named\u00a0Team VS-TIM<\/strong>,\u00a0Visoka \u0161kola za turizam i menad\u017ement Konjic<\/strong>\u00a0from Bosnia & Herzegovina and\u00a0Team SHL from Schweizerische Hotelfachschule Luzern in\u00a0 Switzerland<\/strong>\u00a0as joint winners.<\/p>\n

Journey to the final<\/h2>\n

After successfully passing through the initial phase on the National Final4 competitions in their countries during 2022 and 2023, three teams made it through to the Grand Final, Team Rose Brandis, representing Bosnia and Herzegovina – Team Rose Brandis from Mixed Secondary School Travnik and Team VS-TIM from Konjic College of Tourism and Management, and representing Switzerland \u2013 Team SHL from the Swiss Hotel Management School Lucerne.<\/p>\n

For this first Grand Final, UNWTO counted on the partnership of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Affiliate Member and part of the Affiliate Members Board. The Universidad Complutense de Madrid has been a true knowledge leader for almost 800 years and has a long and proud history of producing the best minds and developing the best young talent. The Ayuntamiento de Madrid also contributed by showing the teams the beauty and hidden gems of Madrid.<\/p>\n

Youth empowerment for tourism’s future<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The UNWTO Students League provides students with a platform that empowers and motivates them,\u202fby giving them\u202freal-time knowledge on our sector and experience by working on creating innovative and sustainable solutions\u202ffor the challenges that the sector is facing. This initiative not only brings Tourism closer to younger generations but, by bringing together these young people with government officials, representatives of tourism industry, experts and other major stakeholders, it also bridges the gap between\u202fthe realities of the sector and students’ education and training, enabling young people\u202fto enter the labour market in the future as\u202fhighly qualified and skilled professionals.<\/p>\n

First published at TravelCommunication.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madrid, Spain, January 2, 2024 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The 2022-2023 UNWTO Students\u2019 League concluded with a celebration of young tourism talent. The Grand Final of the flagship event for supporting students in tourism bought together high School and undergraduate students from Switzerland and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Tourism for rural development challenge The 2022-2023 Students’ League …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1924,43,1925],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-corporate","tag-global-travel-news","tag-latest-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}