Educational Resources

A concise and insightful session by Planet Abled to gain valuable insights on fostering better inclusion and learn actionable steps towards enhancing accessibility in tourism.

Duration: 45 minutes

This informative online session showcased the newly released E-Learning “Human Rights in Tourism” - a freely accessible and self-paced online learning tool developed to support tourism suppliers in understanding and applying human rights due diligence along the value chain.

Duration: 45 minutes

This webinar will shed light on how tourism stakeholders can influence travellers to choose more sustainable products with relatively simple means. It will help understand communication's relevance to achieving customer understanding and goodwill for one's business principles and highlight how customers can be sensitised in the destination.

Duration: 1 hour

This webinar will help clarify what needs to be done to make business travel socially responsible. The focus will be on two crucial basic questions:

1. How do I book?
2. How do I train?

This introductory webinar is explicitly targeted at people who are responsible for planning and booking business trips.

Duration: 1 hour

This introductory webinar will help clarify what every tourism business can do to make travel socially responsible. It is explicitly targeted at small and medium-sized tour operators and tourism businesses and is intended for you to:

• understand your stake – be aware of human rights issues your value chain;
• see the benefit – be clear about the business case to respect human rights; and
• get started – know tools, resources and practical recommendations to implement suitable measures in your strategy and operations.

Duration: 1 hour

This basic webinar will show overlaps and links between human rights, the SDGs, and the UNGPs: Learn how the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights provide a way for businesses to contribute to the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Find out how human rights are included in the SDGs and what that means for your business. Identify the first steps to keep an overview and develop a strategy for integrating human rights, SDGs and the Guiding Principles in your business operations.

Duration: 1 hour

This webinar is explicitly targeted at people who are entrusted with internal (employees) or external (supplier, customers) communication within a tourism business or tourism-related organisation and is intended to:

• Bringing it to life – learn how your commitment can be communicated.
• Avoiding pitfalls – know how to talk about human rights without being deterrent.
• Building back better – understand the benefit of a human rights narrative to be more resilient.

Duration: 1 hour

With the growing trend of tourism activities featuring visits to local projects, more children are involved in tourism and can be put at risk of exploitation. As part of their human rights due diligence, tourism businesses need to develop child-sensitive products, implement policies and adopt approaches that recognise children's vulnerability, seek to mitigate risks and ensure their safety. This webinar is targeted at tourism businesses and other stakeholders offering project visits where tourists come into contact with children during their travels.

Duration: 1 hour

Tourism drives 8% of global emissions, and climate change is already impacting destinations and experiences. This webinar shares practical steps and real business examples to help accommodation providers take climate action, delivered through UNEP’s Transforming Tourism Value Chains project with global partners.

Duration: 1 hour

This session introduces accommodation providers on SIDS to the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism and guides them in creating their first Climate Action Plan. It outlines how they can align with global goals to halve emissions by 2030, reach net zero by 2050, and report progress annually.

Duration: 7 minutes

This session introduces accommodation providers on SIDS to the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism and guides them in creating their first Climate Action Plan. It outlines how they can align with global goals to halve emissions by 2030, reach net zero by 2050, and report progress annually.

Duration: 8 minutes

This session introduces accommodation providers on SIDS to the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism and guides them in creating their first Climate Action Plan. It outlines how they can align with global goals to halve emissions by 2030, reach net zero by 2050, and report progress annually.

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 self-paced course helps tourism managers create decent work conditions. You’ll learn why decent work matters, how to assess and improve your business environment, enhance staff appeal, and strengthen communication.

Duration: 1 hour

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

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

Plastic: Not a minute to waste. Rethinking Single-Use Plastic Products in Tourism. Workshop Intro

Plastic: Not a minute to waste. Rethinking Single Use Plastic Products in Tourism. Workshop 1

Plastic: Not a minute to waste. Rethinking Single Use Plastic Products in Tourism. Workshop 2

Plastic: Not a minute to waste. Rethinking Single Use Plastic Products in Tourism. Workshop 3