Educational Resources

Booking.com Sustainability Training is a learning series developed with UN Tourism to support accommodation providers worldwide. The courses offer practical guidance on key sustainability topics, helping hospitality businesses improve operations and contribute to more responsible tourism.

Tourism Cares Online Training offers courses designed to help tourism professionals embed sustainability and community impact into their work. The platform focuses on practical tools and insights that strengthen responsible practices, build industry resilience, and create positive change through travel.

The Travel Foundation Training provides practical, sustainability-focused learning for tourism businesses and destinations. Its courses help professionals integrate responsible practices into daily operations, strengthening environmental stewardship, community benefit, and long-term business resilience.

TUI Care Foundation launches e-Academy – Digital inclusion for youth in tourism destinations through free online tourism and sustainability classes. These courses will take you through environmental management and social governance practices and will show you how to champion sustainability for positive impact. Complete the academy to earn a badge that recognises your skills and is endorsed by the tourism industry!

The Alliance’s online training platform empowers hospitality professionals with practical modules on sustainability topics such as climate action, water stewardship, and modern slavery. Each course includes real-world examples, tools, and certifications to help hotels and tourism businesses embed responsible practices and build resilient operations.

This course helps tourism professionals create authentic, community-led experiences that benefit locals and visitors. It provides practical tools and examples to integrate equity, sustainability, and lasting connections. By doing so, it fosters responsible tourism that supports and enriches local cultures and communities.

Duration: 1 hour

This webinar offers practical guidance on using evidence-based nudging to influence staff and guest behaviors, reducing emissions, improving customer experience, and benefiting hotel sustainability and profitability.

Duration: 1 hour

This workshop highlights consumers' role in sustainability, exploring trends in climate awareness and ethical purchasing. Participants will learn about influencing sustainable choices, improving resource efficiency, and effective communication of sustainability messages to customers.

Duration: 7 minutes

This workshop highlights consumers' role in sustainability, exploring trends in climate awareness and ethical purchasing. Participants will learn about influencing sustainable choices, improving resource efficiency, and effective communication of sustainability messages to customers.

Duration: 10 minutes

This workshop highlights consumers' role in sustainability, exploring trends in climate awareness and ethical purchasing. Participants will learn about influencing sustainable choices, improving resource efficiency, and effective communication of sustainability messages to customers.

Duration: 14 minutes

This course helps you plan for more sustainable hotels by learning from global leaders. It covers building green teams, managing water, energy, and waste, and ends with guidance on stakeholder engagement and communicating sustainability.

Duration: 1 hour

In a warming world, tourism businesses must balance people, planet, and profit. This course shows entrepreneurs how to manage impacts, innovate sustainably, and lead climate-positive change without breaking the bank.

Duration: 1 hour

The Net Positive Hospitality Simulation has been developed to engage and upskill hospitality leaders and students, bringing Net Positive Hospitality to life and demonstrating how you can implement the Pathway. It helps users to understand the impacts of their decisions, test sustainability actions and create a tailored sustainability action plan.

This training module serves as guidance to train young people in sustainability in the tourism & hospitality sector. Facilitators Handbook.

Length: 17 pages

This Restaurant Operations course sets the foundation for creating a smooth customer experience, from setting the service at a restaurant for both casual and fine dining to covering preparation and closure procedures. You will also study food safety quality standards and learn to integrate sustainability principles, contributing to the UN SDGs by reducing water consumption and waste production and using seasonal, local products to support a circular economy.

Duration: 8 hours

Explore the link between tourism and gastronomy, the role of food in culture and sustainable alignment with the 2030 Agenda.  Culinary Arts and Gastronomy is a course designed for policy makers and culinary professionals exploring this dynamic sector related to tourism. The global gastronomic market has grown remarkably due to rising tourist demand for unique experiences. This course delves into gastronomic history, value chains, market structures, sustainability, and destination planning and management.

Duration: 10 hours

This course teaches sustainable food management in hotels, emphasising the benefits of sustainable options and waste reduction strategies. Participants will gain skills to identify and implement measures that align with global sustainability goals, reducing environmental impact and enhancing hotel operations.

Duration: 1 hour