ESTour Introducing Epidemic Safe Tourism (post-COVID recovery) to strengthen SMEs in the Hospitality Sector In our times more than ever, training and education are key to handle and endure the changes and challenges that have been brought about by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unprecedented emergency measures have affected all economic sectors – among which the hospitality industry has been one of the hardest hit at global scale. In this period of recovery, we are all called to build back better, learning from the past years and supporting the hospitality workers in their retraining and upskilling processes, including health and safety protocols in their daily professional practice.The ESTour project provides a targeted training pathway and a related certification framework for hospitality workers (managers and employees in various posts, mostly in hospitality SMEs) who are willing to update their skillset, and hence improve their employability and employment opportunities, related to the new health and safety protocols and new digital technologies, which proved to be necessary in responding to the epidemic crisis