The project will enable unemployed people to identify, review and self-assess their competence, skills and knowledge, and make a career within the tourism industry. It will establish quality assurance indicators for those already employed in the tourism business and provide support to tourism business owners, HR managers as well as trainers in recruiting personnel and on-job career development. Its immediate users are therefore the unemployed, those employed within the target sector, HR managers, trainers and tourism companies. The project aims also to examine a strategy for planning continuous lifelong vocational guidance for people associated with the tourism industry. The main output will be 2 handbooks both in paper and web format and CD-ROMs, fully adapted to meet the needs of all stakeholders.