Educational Resources

This self-paced course helps tourism managers integrate local communities through inclusive business models, addressing challenges and solutions for community involvement, with a badge awarded upon completion. 

Duration: 1 hour

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 self-paced course for tour guides covers cultural heritage interpretation, including tangible and intangible heritage like sites, buildings, arts, and crafts, emphasising their importance and principles for effective guiding.

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 online course introduces sustainable community engagement for accommodation providers, covering key concepts, benefits, and best practices. Includes videos, resources, and quizzes, with a certificate upon completion—perfect for enhancing sustainability in hospitality.

Duration: 1 hour

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 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

The "Gender Inclusive Strategy for Tourism Businesses" contains tools to support private sector tourism enterprises of all types and sizes achieve effective and consistent strategies and programmes for gender equality across their operations. As demonstrated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, gains in gender equality and women’s economic empowerment can be easily lost if they are not embedded in private sector operations. These guidelines aim to support the private sector in implementing the Action Plan developed in the Global Report on Women in Tourism - Second Edition. In order to apply gender mainstreaming in practice, they provide details on four key steps for companies of all sizes and types. 

Length: 20 pages

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

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

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

This online course explores human rights, focusing on marginalized groups and global issues. It examines legal frameworks and barriers that hinder rights realization, highlighting their impact on societal stability and sustainable development worldwide.

Duration: 11 modules, with 2-4 hours per module

This self-paced course explores women’s rights and gender equality in tourism, highlighting stories of women improving their working conditions and contributing to business success. It is designed for tourism professionals and anyone interested in the topic. You will learn to explain the key issues related to women’s rights and gender equality in the sector.

Duration: 1 hour

This one-hour self-paced course explores women’s rights and gender equality in tourism, highlighting real stories of women improving their working conditions and contributing to business success. A badge is awarded upon completion and passing the assessment.

Duration: 1 hour

This course focuses on gender issues and women empowerment. The course features SDG 5 advocates such as Chair of The Elders Mary Robinson, previous President of Ireland and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-ngcuka, Youth Envoy to the UNSG Jayathma Wickramanayake, and many more.

The self-paced online course consists of 5 modules

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 course will guide you in building and successfully managing a workplace HIV programme, to protect the rights of everyone, reduce HIV related stigma and discrimination, and address inequalities.

Duration: 9 modules over 8-10 hours

This course helps enterprises understand supplier codes of conduct, improve compliance with labour standards and laws, and see how respecting workers’ rights can strengthen business competitiveness.

Self-paced