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The Inauguration Ceremony of the academic year is an institutional ceremony that marks the official start of academic calendar. It includes the inaugural lecture given by a distinguished figure and symbolizes the commitment to knowledge, educational excellence, and dialogue between the university community and society.

The Go Abroad Fair is a dedicated event for CETT students enrolled in vocational training and bachelor's degree programs, centered on international academic and professional mobility. 

The fair features informative sessions, guest universities from abroad, and inspiring testimonials from students who have lived international experiences — all aimed at fostering global awareness and encouraging international engagement.

CETT Talent connects students and alumni with companies in the tourism, hospitality, and gastronomy industries, promoting networking and attracting qualified talent. 

The event includes activities, presentations, and workshops to foster professional development and share experiences between companies and participants.

It’s an incredible opportunity to secure internships or land your first job.

A unique moment to celebrate hard work, growth, and shared dreams. CETT's Graduation Ceremonies mark the end of an academic career and the beginning of a new professional adventure.

Surrounded by classmates, teachers, family, and friends, students attend ceremonies filled with emotion, recognition, and pride. A tribute to talent, dedication, and the future that begins to be built from here.

CETT Alimara Awards recognize the most outstanding proposals in tourism experiences, sustainability, digitalization, and applied research in the tourism industry. 

Every year, the award ceremony brings together industry professionals, companies, and institutions to celebrate innovation and commitment to transformative tourism. 

It's a must-attend event to discover the initiatives that are redefining the future of the sector.

These luncheons, organized in collaboration with Foment del Treball, bring together professionals from the tourism and hospitality sectors, particularly those based in the Barcelona area. 

Held in a roundtable format, they address current issues affecting industry leaders and entrepreneurs. The gatherings create a space for open dialogue among key stakeholders, with the goal of promoting high-quality tourism and generating actionable proposals to tackle both present and future challenges.

Since 2010, this space for analysis and dialogue has hosted over 20 editions, offering a strategic lens on the major challenges facing the tourism industry. Aimed at professionals, institutions, and key sector stakeholders, its mission is to generate valuable insights that inform and improve public policies related to tourism.

In its new phase, the initiative adopts a policy dialogue format to foster more structured, action-oriented conversations. The goal is to produce white papers that serve as practical tools for decision-making and the development of effective tourism policies.

Promoted by the CETT Foundation in collaboration with the Climent Guitart Foundation and the Jordi Comas Matamala Foundation, TTM is a space for reflection and dialogue on talent management in the tourism sector.

Designed especially for professionals in human resources and people management, the event offers tools, insights, and emerging trends to help attract, retain, and develop top talent. Key topics include training, inclusion, ethics, sustainability, and the expectations of young graduates entering the workforce.

The CETT Smart Tourism Summit Barcelona is a platform that champions innovation and digital transformation in the tourism industry.

It highlights real-world solutions, emerging tech trends, and digital tools designed to tackle the sector’s most pressing challenges. The summit also fosters collaboration among organizations and encourages responsible decision-making to support sustainable and regenerative tourism — respectful of both the environment and local communities.

A meeting point for entrepreneurs, professionals and students who want to transform the tourism, hotel and gastronomic industries.

The conference promotes emerging talent through inspiring talks, roundtable discussions, and networking opportunities — all designed to spark innovation, promote sustainability, and support the creation of impactful projects. 

It’s a must-attend event for anyone looking to launch a purpose-driven business.

CETT Smart Tourism Congress Barcelona is a biannual international event that has brought together experts to explore smart tourism since 2016.

It offers a multidisciplinary space to examine the trends, technologies, and strategies reshaping the tourism sector through innovation, sustainability, and digitalization. Through keynote presentations, roundtables, and scientific contributions, the STCB fosters knowledge exchange and collaboration among academia, industry, and public institutions — driving progress toward a more efficient, inclusive, and connected tourism model.

Every year, the Trobada Gastronòmica analyzes the latest trends in cooking and gastronomy through presentations, round tables and workshops.

Over the course of two days, the trends, challenges and opportunities of the gastronomic and restaurant sector are explored through workshops, presentations, show cooking and dialogues with national and international references.

An event that celebrates culinary creativity, encourages the exchange of knowledge and connects training with the professional reality of the gastronomic world.

The International Congress on Gastronomic Tourism is an interuniversity and hybrid space for reflection and debate on gastronomy as an engine for tourism development.

It brings together researchers, professionals, institutions and students to explore the trends, challenges and opportunities offered by gastronomic tourism from a sustainable, innovative and experiential perspective.

Through presentations, round tables and scientific communications, the congress promotes the exchange of ideas and collaboration between the academic world and the professional sector, contributing to positioning gastronomy as a strategic axis of tourism.

Promoted by CETT-UB together with the School of Management, Hospitality and Tourism of the Universidade do Algarve (Portugal), the Universidade de Caxias do Sul (Brazil) and the University of Groningen (Netherlands), this international conference is a space for academic and professional reflection on the link between culture, narrative and tourist experience.

It brings together researchers, professionals and institutions to explore how literature and cinema inspire travel, build imaginations and contribute to the development of tourist destinations.

Co-organized by CETT-UB, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas and Universidad Anáhuac Cancún, this international conference is an academic space to share research, reflections and good practices in hotels and restaurants.

With rotating headquarters and a hybrid format, it allows the participation of researchers, professionals and students from all over Latin America and Europe in person and online. Its objective is to contribute to the competitive and responsible development of the sector through applied knowledge and international collaboration.

They become a space for meeting and dialogue between the CETT-UB teaching and research staff. For three afternoons, current or completed research projects are presented by the research groups with the aim of sharing progress, receiving feedback, and fostering new synergies between the research groups.

This event makes visible the diversity of lines of research that are developed at the CETT and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration within the academic community.

The Rural Tourism Observatory is the largest research project on the sector in Spain promoted by Escapada Rural, the CETT-UB and Netquest, with the collaboration of UN Tourism.

Its objective is to generate expert knowledge about rural tourism in Spain, analyzing both the offer of owners and the demand of travelers. Each year the main conclusions and data of the study for Catalonia are presented at the CETT Campus.

Academic meetings promoted by the CETT-UB in collaboration with Casa Vicens, within the framework of the Official Master's Degree in Tourism Management Innovation.

With a format open to the public and the participation of experts, researchers and professionals, the seminars promote debate on issues such as living heritage, sustainability and culture.