How FUTOURWORK is Working Towards a Fairer Future for Tourism and Hospitality
Read about FUTOURWORK’s nine interconnecting work packages, each dedicated to investigating specific challenges in today’s transforming tourism and hospitality industry.
FUTOURWORK is a Horizon Europe-funded research project dedicated to improving the representation of workers and creating more effective dialogue among employers, unions and governments. The project stands for healthy workplaces and workers’ wellbeing.
Many of the EU’s 13 million tourism and hospitality employees are from marginalised groups, at increased risk of exploitation and job insecurity. Meanwhile, digital transformation – namely the rise of platform work – is having detrimental impacts on workers, deepening existing vulnerabilities and challenges like gender inequality across the sector.
FUTOURWORK is here to investigate these issues, working towards empowering solutions and accessible tools that benefit businesses and workers alike.
Led by the University of Westminster, a diverse team of academics and advocates from nine organisations across six countries form the FUTOURWORK consortium.
With expertise spanning gender equality, labour rights, digitalisation, worker wellbeing and more, our team brings a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach to tackling the sector’s challenges.
Get to know the team of experts bringing the project’s vision to life and the associate organisations supporting our work.
Read about FUTOURWORK’s nine interconnecting work packages, each dedicated to investigating specific challenges in today’s transforming tourism and hospitality industry.
Two members of the FUTOURWORK consortium, Dr. Stroma Cole and Dr. Fiona Eva Bakas, will be presenting at the upcoming Diversity and Sustainability Opportunities and Threats in Tourism (DSOTT) International Tourism Conference at Coimbra University, Portugal, from 4-6 June 2025.
Welcome to the new FUTOURWORK website – a hub for insights, resources and updates on our mission to create a fairer, more inclusive future for tourism and hospitality.
This January Babeş-Bolyai University hosted the official kick-off meeting for FUTOURWORK, a Horizon Europe-funded research project dedicated to creating a fairer, more inclusive tourism and hospitality sector, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Launching in January 2025, FUTOURWORK is a new Horizon Europe Project aiming to transform the future of work in tourism and hospitality. It will research and promote inclusive social dialogue and address the growing concerns related to platform work, job precarity, and the well-being of workers.