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Landelijke Raad voor Toerisme en Recreatie

The Netherlands is experiencing a growing and changing demand for recreation and tourism. This brings with it a major spatial challenge and calls for smarter combination of functions such as living, working and recreation, and touches multiple policy areas. It also requires a new approach and representation of the hospitality domain.

The challenges in the hospitality domain can only be solved collectively, both horizontally (in the triple helix) and vertically (national, provincial, regional). Therefore, the proposal has been made that from the current cooperation at the national level in the Hospitality Sector Taskforce, a new governance and implementation structure should be initiated: the establishment of the National Council for Tourism and Recreation. CELTH is involved in the launch of the National Council and represents the knowledge institutions in it.

The goal of the National Council is -with article 22 of the Constitution as a starting point- on the basis of common interest, to give substance to the collective duty of care to achieve an attractive, accessible, affordable and sustainable supply of tourism and recreational facilities that meet a broad need among the Dutch population and international tourists.

Hospitality Pact

Organizations within the hospitality domain work together in the Hospitality Pact to find sustainable solutions to labor market challenges in the hospitality sector. Cooperation between the sector, education and the government (triple helix) gives the hospitality sector the strength it needs to further develop the profession, contribute to employment and contribute to prosperity and well-being.

The Hospitality Pact has been drawn up under the direction of the Taskforce Hospitality Economy and is supported by Koninklijke Horeca Nederland, ANVR, HISWA-RECRON, CLC-VECTA and Veneca, employee organization FNV Horecabond, the MBO Council, HBO and CELTH. CELTH was partly at the cradle of this pact and will actively work with the labor market challenges within the Human Capital theme of its Agenda Conscious Destinations.

The immediate reason for the cooperation within the pact is the major challenges that the hospitality sector, like other sectors, is facing. These challenges relate to the inflow and outflow of talent, being a good employer, job and income security, image and technology and digitalization. In addition, the necessary sustainability of the sector requires different knowledge and skills.

On behalf of the research and innovation program line, CELTH is starting a learning community human capital. In that community, research and best practices should lead to different and smarter working within the hospitality sector while maintaining an optimal hospitality experience.

Landelijke Data Alliantie

Landelijke Data Alliantie Alliance (LDA) is an open network of all parties in the Netherlands with a need for data and insights about tourism from, to and in the Netherlands. The ambition of the LDA is to create one national knowledge network. In this we want to bring together available data and insights, share them and strengthen them where necessary. Our goal: more data-driven policy decisions and more competitive entrepreneurs.

The LDA stems from Perspective 2030. The foundation of the LDA network is formed by a number of parties who explicitly work together to achieve current and complete data. These include the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, provinces, Destination Netherlands, Knowledge Center for Coastal Tourism, DMOs, NBTC, CBS and CELTH. CELTH is part of the Program Council of the LDA. From the Data & Development Lab, the LDA is fed with new data and insights on a project basis.

Data & Development Lab

With the Data & Development Lab Destination (DDL), CELTH, NBTC and CBS focus on the joint development of new experimental data and insights. In addition, in the DDL we work on the substantiation of research needs, methodologies and vision formation for a sustainable (further) development of destination Netherlands.

The DDL feeds the National Data Alliance new data and insights on a project basis. Projects have an experimental character and are always set up around a topical theme.

Professional Doctorate LTH

Dutch universities of applied sciences started a pilot for their own doctorate track, called the professional doctorate (PD), in 2023. The PD is the Dutch universities of applied sciences' new own doctoral track focused on innovations in professional practice. The pilot was initiated by the Association of Universities of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Regieorgaan SIA. Participating in the pilot are 25 universities of applied sciences in 7 different domains.

The Leisure, Tourism & Hospitality domain is one of five domains in which the PD is being offered in a pilot. The PD has been developed in cooperation with seven colleges in the domain: Hotelschool The Hague, Hogeschool Saxion, Breda University of Applied Sciences, NHL Stenden Hogeschool, HZ University of Applied Sciences, Hogeschool Inholland and Hotel Management School Maastricht/Zuyd Hogeschool. Each program will launch a number of PD tracks.

#NLTourismResearchNetwork

The #NLTourismResearchNetwork was started in collaboration between Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and CELTH. The network brings together researchers from all different disciplines within Dutch educational and knowledge institutions, with the aim of combining expertise, broadening the relevance of tourism studies in the Netherlands, responding quickly to pressing issues and building an internationally renowned reputation around policy-relevant sustainable tourism development.”

The launch of the network takes up the gauntlet laid down by the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (Rli). In its advice “Valuable Tourism,” the Rli advocated the investment in a powerful knowledge infrastructure for the benefit of the hospitality domain.

International partners

CELTH is part of an international knowledge infrastructure within the Leisure, Tourism & Hospitality domain. Research projects and studies in the Netherlands and abroad act as a lab where knowledge, insights and tools can be used elsewhere. With international partners, research projects are developed to realize both international casuistry and dissemination on the European and world stage. In order to maximize the value and impact of research internationally.

In 2019, we have partnered with European Tourism Association (ETOA), European Travel Commission (ETC) and NECSTouR on sustainable tourism development.