01 — QUEST Platform
A playful learning experience for coastal tourism skills
QUEST is the CoastalPro gamified learning platform: six ACADEMY modules delivered as a simulation of a real coastal tourism business, built on our Design for Lifelong Learning Playful Experience Framework.
What the platform is
QUEST is a customisable online learning environment built on Moodle and wrapped in a game layer. It hosts the six CoastalPro modules — The Stay, The Experience, The Adrenaline, The Environment (ESG), The Brand and The Business — together with curated videos and notes, quizzes and exercises, case studies and simulated scenarios.
It is not an arcade game. It is a learning experience that simulates a real scenario of running a coastal tourism business, where participants design their own tourism product based on their own interests, location and regional priorities.
Design for Lifelong Learning Playful Experience Framework
The framework behind QUEST turns learning content into a playable progression that works for very different audiences — from secondary students to professionals switching careers. Every module opens a new stage of the simulation, and every stage asks for a decision rather than a memorised answer.
How it was built
WP2 produced the learning content for the six modules, written by the consortium partners and reviewed by tourism educators and industry practitioners. WP3 turned that content into the gamified platform: the training methodology, the gamification rules and interface, the virtual environment UI/UX, and the competence framework that connects module outcomes to coastal tourism career paths.