Angers University launches Angers Tourism.Lab

Angers Tourism.Lab was officially launched on 10 April 2015 in Angers, with Christophe Clergeau, 1^st Vice President of the Pays de la Loire Region, Christophe Béchu, Mayor of Angers and President of Angers Loire Métropole, and Jean-Paul Saint-André, Vice-Chancellor of Angers University, in the presence of some fifteen of the project’s initiators. 

As far as its Research activity is concerned, Angers Tourism.Lab is looking to create and structure a research federation, i.e. a multidisciplinary team drawn from various laboratories, networking on shared projects. The main results to be expected by 2020 are: 

• development of research of excellence

• a twofold increase in the workforce, to reach a total of 60 teacher-researchers, researchers and doctoral students,

• a top-of-the-line international reputation thanks to consolidation of partnerships with Asia and North America.

One of its Training objectives is to create a complete educational pathway in tourism from Certificate of Professional Aptitude (CAP) to doctorate by 2020, to be structured around professions involved in three major areas of activity: 

• Hotels/Catering/MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Events)
• Tourism and leisure activities
• Economic and tourism exploitation of culture, the arts and heritage

Angers Tourism.Lab also intends to structure an innovation ecosystem around tourism by bringing together actors in the fields of research/training (the academic world) and innovation (technopoles, competitive clusters, regional innovation platforms, incubators, Ouest Valorisation, development agencies, etc.). 

On the web:

• Angers Tourism.Lab officiellement lancé