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Centers of excellence in sustainable tourism to boost economic development and enhance university-business cooperation in Southern Asia (CESTour)

Centers of excellence in sustainable tourism to boost economic development and enhance university-business cooperation in Southern Asia” (acronym: CESTour) as a European- Asian collaboration initiative in the Capacity Building for Higher Education (Erasmus+ CBHE) program aiming to evolve entrepreneurial mindsets for the betterment of the labor market and society alike. The project especially focuses on the development and implementation of centers of excellence for sustainable tourism to enhance the knowledge about the concept and create an impact on the future developments in the tourism industry.

Since the CESTour project objectives are in line with our organization?s activities and aims, we intend to establish a framework for collaboration and mutual consultation with the project consortium, so as to disseminate and promote the project and its results; give input on local/regional initiatives in the project’s field; and act as a multiplier to reach out to target groups.

The following intuitions are jointly bidding for this project.

  1. FH JOANNEUM Gesellschaft mbH, Austria
  2. University of Alicante, Spain
  3. Universitá die Lingue e Comunicazione, Italy
  4. Birla Institute of Management and Technology, India
  5. Institute of Public Enterprise, India
  6. Nirma University, India
  7. Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
  8. Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka
  9. Tribhuvan University, Nepal
  10. Global College International, Nepal