The 32nd edition of the Feria Internacional de Turismo de Madrid (FITUR), was the backdrop chosen by Formación Digital to present their new Comprehensive Plan for Subsidized Online Training in Hotel Management and Tourism. FITUR saw the number of participants at the fair increase this year by 2%, even though the exhibition space had been reduced for this edition. It was once again the setting for this gathering of thousands of professionals and companies from the tourism industry who are interested in innovation and new business models.

On this platform, and thanks to the segment offered to us by the Clúster de Turismo de Madrid, Juan José Correa, Tourism Product Manager at Formación Digital, presented to the audience our Comprehensive Plan for Online Training in Hotel Management and Tourism; a formative project that emerges as an initiative for the current necessities in the sector. It is based on these three fundamental values: An important technological component with a base in R+D+i, a solid commitment to sustainable tourism and a dedicated vision for attention to detail and experiential tourism.

With this base and the objective being the adaptation to an efficient management model that understands how to satisfy the needs of the new tourist, Formación Digital has produced a complete formative project in collaboration with the principal agents in the sector. It's an initiative that has come to strengthen the business network and boost the level of professional qualification through a programme that is completely subsidized by the Fundación Tripartita.

Personalized tutorial sessions adapted to the student, total integration between the multimedia contents, online support tools to aid learning and success stories in 100% real case studies are just a few of the pillars that this new Comprehensive Plan for Online Training in Hotel Management and Tourism is based on. The plan also has the characteristic flexibility that e-learning provides and the possibilities of networking that can be gained by integration into the Red de Conocimiento Turístico.

José Ignacio Ustaran, Managing Director at Formación Digital, presented the winners with their certificates for having won the 2nd edition of the "Innova en Red" competition. Conceived in 2010 as an innovation project, with the idea that people within our company that are involved in the teaching process could suggest improvements that could be incorporated into our teaching models and administrative management.

This second edition gathered together a total of 6 ideas that had been elaborated by our colleagues at Formación Digital, maintaining the same quality that we saw in the projects that were presented in the first edition last year. The panel of judges decided that the stand out initiatives were provided by the following people:

• Winner of "Best idea to be incorporated into our Teaching Model" category: Rubén Aragón with his proposals for the improvement of the online platforms through an RSS feed and the detection of unanswered questions in exams, as well as his suggestion to create Installation CDs with all the necessary components for an online tutor.
• Winner of "Best idea to be incorporated into our Administrative Management" category: Alfonso Pazos with his proposal to create a shared information directory that will make it easier and quicker for the online tutors to contact their students.

The Polanco residential district, one of the most commercially developed districts in Mexico City, has been chosen by Formación Digital for the new headquarters. We have moved into fully reformed offices that have been adapted to the necessities of our company, our clients and our colleagues. The centre is being run in the Latin-American country by Fernando Castillo, Country Manager.

The Polanco Industrial Area, one of the areas that has experienced the largest economic growth in the capital, has therefore become the ideal location for our headquarters in Mexico, consolidating itself as the fourth set of offices that Formación Digital have opened in the American Continent, following the arrival of offices in Chile, Colombia and Brazil.

The full address of the new headquarters is as follows:
Andrés Bello 45, piso 16, Despacho B
Polanco, México 11950

For more contact information, the telephone number continues to be: +52.55.55922455, and all this information is also available on the web: http://www.formaciondigital.com/mx/contacto.