The project aims to promote a sustainable development of thermal tourism, improving the employability and training of people interested in working in this sector, while promoting good environmental practices in thermal tourism.

The theme of the project is sustainable tourism.

The thermal sector currently enjoys “good health” and maintains an upward trend that responds to an improvement of the establishments, the creation of new ones that expand the offer and a boom in health and wellness tourism. Thermal tourism generates employment and practically as many overnight stays as all the rural tourism as a whole, clearly contributing to the deseasonalization of tourism, to the fixation of population in rural areas and to its territorial structuring. The project will be developed in rural areas with thermal resources and will be aimed at all possible interested parties (unemployed), with the objective of working in the thermal tourism sector.

It is structured as follows:

• Theoretical initial classroom training on sustainable thermal tourism.
• Practical training. Internships in companies of the sector.
• Elaboration of CVs and job search strategies.
• Conducting interviews with businessmen in the sector in these areas.

The percentage of participation of women in the project will be 50%, while the percentage of participation of other priority groups (sum of the rest of the groups except women) will be 90%.

At least 10% of those targeted will obtain employment.

The project will have an impact on the Natura 2000 Network.

Executed in ITI Cadiz and ITI Jaen.