Available courses

Some places are hard to find in the virtual world. They are simply not on the map. A short video, few pictures, a 360 degree panorama, some basic information about public transport access, opening hours and contact details make access to a point-of-interest much easier for visitors. The nodal points are a blog infrastructure and an interactive map.

The result: an open invitation to better orientation and hands-on practical technical skills for the tourism managers of today and tomorrow.

This course covers most aspects of sustainability in the field of tourism. It is a 12 session online course structured as an interactive learning environment: a combiniation of self-learning (with texts, videos, podcasts), group-work (using various online tools) and virtual conferencing (that demand attendance). 

After a #Kick-off and overview, we'll assess the #Framework of (sustainable) tourism and the relevant #Stakeholders, before encountering tourism's biggest both blessing and challenge: #Climate - and #Mobility, as a closely linked sector. In week 4 we'll talk about #Communication and #Clients, before we take a break in #Nature with it's #Biodiversity, #Animals and #Protection measures. We'll continue with #Management and #Policy as major instruments to contol and foster tourism. #Accessibility in week 8 is not only about #tourism4all but also about #Trails,  #Mapping and #Signing. The economic relevance of tourism is our subject in the class about #Transfer: #ODA, #FDI and #Voluntourism. In the section about #Fairness we will have a look into various social aspects of tourism: #Gender, #Human-rights, #Indigenous-People, #Land-ownership, #Child-rights, #Poverty and #Peace.

Week 11 finally is about #Analyzing with students presenting their tourism and the #SDG #Posters. The #Masterplan is the icing of the class where #Applying all contents into a tourism strategy for an imaginary country is presented.

The challenge: create a magazine about a given subject. Popular science style, with speaking stock photos, a self-made infographic and an interview with an expert. Legal issues from imprint to credits, text edits from orthography to gender style, picture selection in right quality and unique names, layout pre-settings and style discussions. Smooth workflow, tight deadlines and peer pressure to eye on quality to spice things up.

And if we have a fully fledged glossy magazine in hand, we'll celebrate with a launch party and reflect the process.