Overview

The Devon Tourism Skills Network is an integral part of Visit Devon – a public / private sector partnership set up to manage Tourism and training for tourism in Devon. It also represents the Tourism Skills Network South West – Tourism Skills 2015 - within Devon, receiving core funding from the Regional Development Agency to support a wide manner of training courses, training workshops and other training programmes. Additional sources of funding are provided by the Devon and Cornwall Learning and Skills Council.

The Devon Tourism Skills Network exists to achieve the regional aim of the Tourism Skills 2015 project:

‘The development of a skilled and motivated workforce which is committed to providing outstanding service to visitors to the region’

And in addition strives to:

‘Support the tourism industry in Devon to become more competitive through skills development and training for staff, to enable businesses to provide a quality experience and raise the profile of the industry’

We provide a variety of training courses, designed to meet the needs of the tourism industry within Devon - please look at our Diary and Events pages for our forthcoming courses, events and other programmes.  If you are a Devon based tourism or hospitality business looking for a course but can't find it here, then please let us know and we will source it for you!

Our e-newsletter is sent on a monthly basis containing details of our forthcoming training courses and relevant news and information to do with Devon based tourism.  To register to receive this, please e-mail tourismskills@devon.gov.uk with 'newsletter' in the title.