Educational Resources

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) co-developed this online course, supported by Expedia Group, to help build the capacity of tourism and hospitality businesses towards plastic waste reduction and community empowerment. The course guides readers through the steps for minimising the sourcing and consumption of single-use plastics as well as the importance of businesses to sign the UNESCO Sustainable Travel Pledge. 

Length: 64 pages 

This free online training is designed to support hospitality companies and their human resources, procurement and legal teams, to identify and address the risks of modern slavery in their hotel operations.

In this webinar we will look at the different parts in the food system where the hospitality industry can have an influence on from production to consumption. Afterwards, participants will be able to identify actions for the planning, procurement, and management of food within their operations to improve overall impacts.

Duration: 1 hour

This webinar explores sustainable food practices, focusing on SDG 12. It offers practical actions to reduce environmental and social impacts, assessing food production, processing, and procurement practices for responsible consumption and production. 

Duration: 32 min

This workshop focuses on SDG 12.3, addressing food loss and waste. It offers practical actions and tools for hotels to reduce food-related impacts, improve practices, and tackle food waste drivers, benefiting the environment, society, and your business.

Duration: 17 mins

Brief description of what is circularity with additional documents at https://buildingcircularity.org/  

Duration: 2 minutes

The Water Stewardship for Hotel Companies report guides hotels on managing water use and implementing stewardship programs. It defines water stewardship in the industry, outlines six key steps, and includes a tool to calculate property water use, with a webinar showing how to apply it.

Duration: 25 minutes

This report recommends six steps every hotel should take to better manage their impact on water, with guidance on setting targets, managing water use, working with supply chain and collaborating for maximum impact.

Duration: 25 pages

This workshop explores circular, sustainable hotel procurement, highlighting principles, case studies, and international examples to reduce risks, boost customer engagement, and create socio-economic value through eco-friendly practices.

Duration: 10 mins

This workshop explores circular, sustainable hotel procurement, highlighting principles, case studies, and international examples to reduce risks, boost customer engagement, and create socio-economic value through eco-friendly practices.

Duration: 15 mins

This workshop explores circular, sustainable hotel procurement, highlighting principles, case studies, and international examples to reduce risks, boost customer engagement, and create socio-economic value through eco-friendly practices.

Duration: 18 mins

This webinar offers practical tips for hoteliers to reduce plastic use and increase circularity, showcasing successful examples and insights from experts, helping tourism contribute to solving the global plastic pollution crisis.

Duration: 1 hour

The decision-making tree helps to make decisions around the selection of plastic bottles, bags, amenities and other items.

Duration: 5 pages

This self assessment guide is designed to help travel companies—especially (but not exclusively) those with significant supply chain decisions, such as tour operators, travel advisors, and destination management companies—assess the sustainability of their suppliers and provides a framework for choosing partners that align with sustainability values. This is not a comprehensive checklist but rather a practical tool to facilitate informed decision-making when selecting hotels, DMCs, tour guides and operators, airlines, restaurants, museums, and other itinerary inclusions.