Educational Resources

This self-paced course teaches tourism managers to involve local communities, identify stakeholders, integrate community linkages into daily operations, and understand the mutual benefits for locals and businesses.

Duration: 1 hour

This course explores gender equality and women’s empowerment in tourism, their impacts, and strategies for intervention. A certificate is awarded upon completion. 

Duration: 1 hour

This course explores how intangible cultural heritage supports sustainable development, resilience, and community well-being, addressing challenges like health, gender, and conflict, emphasising the importance of keeping living heritage alive.

Duration: 6 weeks, with 2-4 hours per week

The Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines for the Public Sector in Tourism have been developed to support the tourism public sector to integrate gender equality considerations and women’s economic empowerment into tourism planning and implementation. In practice, gender mainstreaming involves the systematic integration of gender perspectives – and the experiences of diverse women – in all policies, programmes and thematic issues in the tourism sector. The guidelines contain tools to support national, regional, local and other tourism institutions to apply an approach to tourism planning, programming and implementation that integrates gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.

Length: 24 pages

This course helps professionals create authentic, sustainable travel experiences that benefit locals and visitors by building tools for community-led tourism, fostering stronger community partnerships, and delivering immersive, equitable experiences that last.

Duration: 2 hours

The evidence is clear: gender equality is critical to business performance and sustainable economic growth globally. The Women’s Empowerment Principles Gender Gap Analysis Tool (WEPs Tool) is a joint project of the UN Global Compact, UN Women, the Multilateral Investment Fund of the IDB, and IDB Invest. It serves as a business-driven tool designed to help companies from around the world assess gender equality performance across the workplace, marketplace, and community. This guidance document is to help companies understand the steps to prepare and complete their self-assessment. It is recommended that large companies begin these steps 1-2 weeks in advance to allow sufficient time to form a team and gather relevant data.

Length: 24 pages

These 9 modules supports digital marketing trainers to help tour operators improve their online presence.

Self-paced

This course teaches innovative approaches for promoting decent work and social justice in rural economies. Divided into 7 modules, it covers topics such as decent work policies, gender equality, youth empowerment, and a just transition to a sustainable rural economy.

Self-paced, 7 modules

These 18 modules will help any trainer to implement a practical and relevant hospitality training to young people with little experience in the sector.

Self-paced

This guide helps businesses in the tourism value chain achieve mutual benefits by aligning development impacts with core goals. It maps opportunities, challenges, solutions, and partners who can provide support, based on research, case studies, and expert feedback.

Length: 80 pages

Supporting local community welfare is vital for hospitality businesses to thrive. This factsheet provides an overview of how to prioritize community welfare, including getting to know your community, identifying areas for engagement, integrating welfare into existing activities, and ensuring activities remain relevant and grow with the community.

Length: 2 pages

An introduction course dealing with indigenous people, the importance of supporting indigenous people, codes of conduct and intellectual property rights.

Self-paced

This training module serves as guidance to train young people in house keeing in the tourism & hospitality sector. Facilitators handbook.

Length: 19 pages

This self-paced online module equips policymakers and organizations with practical tools to address the gender pay gap, showcasing international examples, good practices, and effective laws at EU, national, and local levels to inspire action and promote pay equity.

Duration: 45 minutes

This curriculum is a free resource that can be used by qualified, non-commercial organisations to further the reach and help support more disadvantaged young people to build a better future. We invite anyone who is interested in using this curriculum as part of their own youth employment initiatives to get in touch to find out more. This could include hotels, non-profits, training organisations, funders, or governments.

Duration: 100 hours 

This self-paced course teaches tourism managers and enthusiasts to develop child-friendly tourism, understand child rights, identify negative impacts, promote positive practices, and combat child sexual exploitation in tourism. 

Duration: 1 hour