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Sustainable Tourism for Small Island Developing States
Topic outline
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What you can expect
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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 generationsAs 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.
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Welcome to this fourth session. In this module "Stakeholders, Key Actors in Sustainable Tourism & Partnership Establishment" you will learn to:
- articulate the importance of stakeholder collaboration
- describe a Destination Management Organization's role, types and challenges
- create a marketing SWOT analysis
- build a destination brand
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In this video sustainable tourism expert Lynn Beckles welcomes you and gives you an overview about what you are going to learn in this chapter. Click on the heading to start your learning process.
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This training booklet explains how to engage stakeholders and help them to cooperate with regard to sustainable tourism. You will learn to establish destination management organisational partnerships and how to build community capacity. Last but not least we will provide a first introduction to marketing activities and destination branding.
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In this chapters' first expert video Sara Currie gives you some practical insights from stakeholder led destination branding using the case of Timor-Leste.
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In this second video Ilisapeci Matatolu from the University of South Pacific gives you some information about the South Pacific tourism organisation and its impact on stakeholder management.
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Analyze the destination brand of your Small Island Development State of choice. We look forward to your brief analyses highlighting the main strengths and weaknesses with regard to the following aspects.
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Congratulations! You finished our lesson about stakeholder involvement in sustainable tourism. Click on the heading to get to know where to continue and where to find more information.