Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 5. March 2021, 23:09

Some more offers about sustainable tourism could be found here:

https://sustainabletourism.net/expertise/courses/

Very interesting seems to be that one: https://scholar.harvard.edu/sustainabletourism/courses it is with Margret Epler Woods!

A very nice collection of best practices in sustainable tourism: http://greentourism.eu/en/BestPractice/IndexPublic

Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 9. March 2021, 10:24

I just got an interesting invitation for a training for sustainable tourism, called EU ECO-TANDEM Education Programme:

this Co-funded by the COSME Programme of the European Union to boost sustainable tourism development and increase the capacity building of traditional tourism SMEs through transnational cooperation and knowledge/tech transfer.

The text of their homepage sounds interesting:

"The tourism industry is facing new challenges (sustainability concerns, overtourism, COVID-19), which can be adequately tackled by creating synergies between tourism and other related sectors, throughout the value chain as a whole.

In the light of these crises, eco-sustainability is no longer a niche: eco-tourism is real. It’s the present and the future, driving a lot of challenges among the tourism sector: how to innovate and be a true leader in the post-pandemic society. How to meet the eco-sustainability standards and a more sustainable approach to tourism, in particular from traditional tourism SMEs.

Tourism SMEs need to embrace the opportunity that the new challenge of sustainability offers, as a possible driver of innovation and growth. Considering the fact that skills and competences are crucial for the industry, the ECO-TANDEM PROGRAMME project is based on cooperation and knowledge/tech transfer. How? Solving challenging together, according to a tandem approach and methodology"  https://eu-ecotandem.eu/

Their "ECO-TANDEM ACADEMY – where theory meets practice" they  offer two programmes designed for entrepreneurs, managers of SMEs and tourism professionals in the public and private sector: the theory-based ECO-TANDEM Education Programme and the practically oriented ECO-TANDEM Training Programme.

Any interested person can register for FREE for one of the two Programmes or take both in parallel. Having completed the courses will be an asset for being selected to business programme.https://eu-ecotandem.eu/the-eu-eco-tandem-academy

The program:

THE MODULES

1. Leadership & Vision
2. Social Network
3. Participation
4. Education & Learning
5. Research Integration
6. Standardization (combined with ECO-TANDEM Training Programme)
7. Sustainable Tourism Skills & Development (combined with ECO-TANDEM Training Programme)
8. Resilience in Tourism (combined with ECO-TANDEM Training Programme)
9. Circular Economy
10. Assessment

Full program under https://eu-ecotandem.eu/newpage

I think, I gonna check that out.

 

Any interested person can register for FREE for one of the two Programmes or take both in parallel. Having completed the courses will be an asset for being selected to business programme.https://eu-ecotandem.eu/the-eu-eco-tandem-academy

The program:

Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 11. March 2021, 15:44

There is a great offer from the ATLAS association:

The Erasmus + INCOME Tourism project is promoting a Webinar series on "Skills for Today & Tomorrow I Tourism Education, Employability and Industry-University cooperation", as a way to contribute to the discussion and reflection about the challenges the sector is going through. Professionals need to have relevant skills in times of rapid change, and that is why it is even more critical now to discuss how can Industry-University cooperation initiatives, namely dual education systems answer these quests.

In this context, soft skills, just as digital skills, are highly relevant to tourism businesses’ performance and competitiveness. Given the present global-wide crisis, universities need to adapt their curricula and learning approaches to adapt to the market needs, tackling the competencies young professionals need to succeed in the job market.

In this regard, and although some good examples can be found, there is still the need and potential to bring academia and industry together, building new cooperative learning models to develop curricula focusing on employability skills and with learning outcomes adapted to the real, evolving, and demanding needs of the tourism industry.
The INCOME Tourism is addressing these challenges, proposing a new learning approach, linked to the development of soft skills, and based on a cooperative learning process that brings together higher education institutions and businesses in the tourism industry.

The project consortium – made up of 13 partner organisations based in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, Germany, Croatia, and the Netherlands – therefore recognises the need and the opportunity to include the development of soft skills into higher education curricula and to strongly cooperate with businesses to ensure that learning opportunities in the ‘real’ world are provided to tourism students. This will guarantee the enhancement of skills in future and current working staff.

The target audience for the webinar series is tourism students and professionals, employers, educators, and governments.

The first session “Sustainability of the tourism industry and the role of the dual learning model” will take place on March 30th, from 14.30 to 16.00 (CET).

More information and registration at: http://income-tourism-project.eu/webinar/index.html