Skip to main content
Details
You are not enrolled in any courses.
List of all available courses

You are currently in guest mode. Log in or register to fully use the HOOU platform.


Your advantages when registering:

  • You can use chat and forums to exchange ideas.
  • We will confirm your participation in some courses.

Sustainable Tourism for Small Island Developing States

Topic outline

  • Überblick

    What you can expect


    • The Course`s Storyline

      edu sharing object

    • Dear Learner,
      Welcome to our online course "Sustainable Tourism and Stakeholder Networking for SIDS". This course lets you explore and assess the opportunities that sustainable tourism measures offer for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This course will help you to think carefully and critically about current tourism regimes and tourism policies. It illustrates through practical examples how policy-making can improve tourism standards in the main SIDS regions. Join us in this online learning experience!

      Why is this topic important?


      SIDS still face numerous challenges with regard to sustainable development and sustainable livelihoods for their current population as well as future generations

      As one of the fastest growing sectors in the world, in recent years tourism has become one of the key economic factors for many SIDS. However, tourism is associated with various risks for their fragile ecosystems. In addition, the size and geographical situation of many SIDS confronts them with vulnerabilities that limit their competitiveness in the tourism industry. In light og these challenges, there is a need for well-formulated policies, regulations and standards in the tourism sector. Here, policy-makers play a key role in fostering the transition towards sustainable tourism.

      Our online course “Sustainable Tourism and Stakeholder Networking for SIDS Policy Makers” seeks to inspire you to explore and assess the opportunities that sustainable tourism policies offer for SIDS.

      This course will help you to think carefully and critically about current tourism systems and policies. It illustrates through practical examples how policy-making and the implementation of appropriate measures may greatly improve tourism in SIDS.

      Who can take this course?

      Although everyone is welcome to join, this course has been designed for a specific audience: Policy makers on strategic and operative levels who seek to better grasp the interdisciplinarity of the topic, who want to gain further insights on existing policy frameworks, appropriate technologies and best practices from islands.

      The course is also suitable for „public officials of tomorrow”, i.e. master students from related disciplines (e.g. policy or development economics), as well as NGOs working in the tourism sector. They are provided with hands-on knowledge on strategies and the evaluation of sustainable tourism concepts which can, for example, be useful for an applied master’s thesis, or a distinctive sustainable tourism project.

      This online course...
      • offers an interdisciplinary perspective on sustainable tourism as well as related policies, regulations and standards found in Small Island Developing States
      • introduces you to a broad spectrum of tourism- but also policy-related topics, for example sustainable tourism strategies and measures... as well as policies, initiatives and programs
      • seeks to inspire you self-develop a small solution for promoting sustainable tourism in SIDS


      This interdisciplinary course has an active duration of 7 weeks.

      You will learn…
      • to distinguish basic concepts and technical terms in the sustainable tourism discourse
      • to challenge tourism conditions in a given SIDS
      • to differentiate between different policy approaches and implementation strategies to increase sustainable tourism measures in SIDS
      • how to identify, critically assess and evaluate tourism regimes in SIDS, building on examples from previous learned material

      To practically make use of your newly gained knowledge and skills, you will – piece by piece throughout the course – improve your analytical skills to critically evaluate a given sustainable tourism concept for a small island.

    • forum icon
      Ankündigungen Forum

  • 1 Tourism Impacts and Challenges

    In this learning week, you:

    • will be introduced to tourism impacts deepened in the impact of
      1. socio-cultural impacts
      2. environmental impacts
      3. economic impacts
    • will learn to identify the threats that tourism poses to destinations and businesses
    • will learn to describe sustainable tourism development challenges affecting SIDS

    • page icon
      What are you going to learn in this chapter? Page

      Smiley mit wachsenden Pflanzen als Symbol für Lernen

      In this section sustinable tourism expert Kennedy Pemberton, Director of Operations at Green Case Consulting, welcomes you and gives you an overview about what you are going to learn in this chapter. Click on the heading to get to the video he prepared for you.

    • book icon
      Theory: Tourism Impacts and Challenges Book

      Let us start with an overview abou the impacts (positive and negative) of tourism and the challenges tourist destination have to face. Just click on the heading to get started with our training booklet. 

      If you want to download / print it, you find a pdf version at this link. 

    • page icon
      Practice Insight: Antigua and Barbuda Page

      In this video tourism expert Vashti Rasmey-Casimir, Sustainable Tourism Officer at Ministry of Tourism in Antigua, will introduce some of the negative tourism impacts the destination Antigua had to face over time. 

    • page icon
      Practice Insight: the Quirimbas Archipelago (Mozambique) Page

      In this video tourism expert Robin Mason will give you some practice insights to sustainable tourism. She will explain tourism challenges at the Quirimbas Archipelago in Mozambique. 

    • page icon
      Practice Insight: Beach Comber Island (Fiji) Page

      Stephen Pratt, professor at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management in Florida, gives you some insights into socio-cultural impacts of tourism using the example of Beach Comber Island. 

    • page icon
      Exercise 1: Tourism Impacts and Challenges Page

      Welcome to our first small assignment on sustainable tourism. You are now familiar with the triple bottom line of sustainable tourism and have heard in various practical insights where the greatest challenges for island states lie. Now it's time for you to engage practically with sustainable tourism yourself.

      In this first step, you should choose a Small Island Developing State, research it, and gather facts about tourism. 

      You don't know which one to choose? Have a look at this overview in wikipedia to get to know more about the Small Island Developing States. 


    • page icon
      Wrap-up Page

      fröhliches Smiley

      Congratulations! You just finished our first chapter about tourism impacts and challenges. Click on the heading to get a very short summary and to learn about the way to continue your learning.