Valencia, May 4 (EFE) .- Pre-registration requests for online training of managers of sports entities and active tourism has increased considerably during the confinement, the director of the Chair of Sport at the Polytechnic University of Valencia told EFE. (UPV), César Iribarren Navarro.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE OF MANAGERS

Since March 13, 2020, the profile of inquiries received in this department “shows that the sector has a high degree of maturity in online training due to the professional profile of its managers.”

According to the historical training of the UPV Chair of Sport since 2010, the year in which distance training began, “90% of students come from the sector itself, either because they are professionals who want to learn new management strategies, or because they are professional players, technicians or instructors who want to start the transition from the field to the offices to manage their sport or their sports tourism activity ”.

In the first two decades of the 21st century terms such as teleworking and online training have emerged strongly, although these concepts were already more familiar in the sector of sports entities and active tourism.

COVID19 AND TRAINING

Until the state of health alarm, 60% of the students of the Chair of Sport “had already opted for online training, a sector that has always been sensitive to the incidence of new technologies and the professional has been more familiar with these tools ”, commented Iribarren.

Distance training, according to this expert, “allows students and professionals to adapt to their personal and work needs the process of incorporating knowledge in the management of sports entities and active tourism.”

Students in this specialty want “to learn from contrasted professionals who come from their own segment of activity to learn about their experience in specific projects,” he said.

“The new digital age allows not only to tailor training to the needs of the student, but also to demand – as an athlete – a management of self-discipline and achievement of personal goals,” he stressed.

POSITIVE REACTION OF THE SECTOR

For the director of Strategic Projects and Innovation, Chair of Sport at the UPV, Javier Pérez Domingo, “the desire to excel and the generation of ideas and synergies that the sector of sports entities and active tourism is manifesting is incredible.”

According to Pérez Domingo, Covid19 has broken schemes and forces all sectors to reset targets at all levels in companies, entities and organizations. The sector of sports entities and active tourism knows that the time horizon is diffuse but it is clear that there are reasons to think positively. ”

“No one doubts that confinement has valued concepts such as health, family and friends, while it has repositioned sports and nature among the new priorities,” he said.

Pérez Domingo stressed that, from a citizen point of view, when gradually progress towards normality “more sport will be practiced, active experiences will be sought and experiences in natural spaces will be valued”. EFE

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