Willy Scharnow Foundation for Tourism
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 19.4 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 28.7 ″ E The Willy Scharnow Foundation for Tourism is an independent organ of the tourism industry . The foundation's work essentially includes the promotion of global intercultural understanding and the improvement and promotion of training and further education for tourism employees.
The non-profit corporation based in Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1953 by the travel entrepreneur Willy Scharnow (1897–1985). The foundation capital of initially 10,000 DM amounted to approx. 8.3 million euros.
The foundation's work includes a. Study trips and seminars , grants for internships, financial support for language courses, awards for training graduates and the award of the Willy Scharnow Prize (until 2015). Until 2006, the foundation also awarded research contracts to the Willy Scharnow Institute at the Free University of Berlin, which it sponsored . After the Master’s degree in Tourism was discontinued in 2009, the institute was wound up. Instead, the foundation funded the preservation and expansion of the world's largest collection of tourism history until 2018 ( Historical Archive on Tourism ), which was a department of the former FU Institute and which moved to the Technical University of Berlin at the end of 2012 . Since 2006 the foundation has been involved in the award of a quality seal for tour guides together with the team for international tourist communication (TINTKO) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willy Scharnow Foundation: Seal of quality travel guide ( Memento from April 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )