Good career skills are key elements for young people in aiming at stable integration into working life and sustainable careers. Tour4Youth programme offers young, 15-24-year-old tourism, hospitality, and restaurant students or graduated unemployed people a three-step, personally supported program to achieve this goal. To develop the career management skills of the youth in the tourism,

From August 28th to 30th, 2023, in Pori, Finland, the kickoff meeting for the Interreg Central Baltic program project “Tour4Youth” was held. The event was organized by the lead partner, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (referred to as SAMK), in order to discuss and initiate the planned activities of the project in collaboration with other

The labour-intensive tourism, hospitality, and restaurant sectors are among one of the biggest employers of young people. The sector is also one of the most attractive in the minds of young people. Current challenges are the sector’s emphasis on short-term employment and the thought of the sector as a source of income during student years.