Dive into the fundamentals of sustainable and regenerative tourism to accelerate your destination's path towards sustainable development!
- Learn about sustainable and regenerative tourism models: explore their principles and potential for your destination
- Gain practical skills: develop regenerative tourism initiatives and the importance of local community engagement
- Communicate sustainable strategies effectively through storytelling and branding techniques
Through four modules with theory and practical examples, our experts will expand your sustainability knowledge and guide you into building actionable and impactful tourism initiatives to empower your destination's regenerative journey.
What will you learn at this course?
Concepts Overview
Learn the key concepts of sustainable and regenerative tourism, their application and explore how to assess and improve tourism impact efforts in your destination.
Effective Practises
Identify the success factors, the potential and opportunities from the leading initiatives in the industry, and understand how to effectively communicate your sustainable actions to the local community.
Actionable Strategies
Apply the learning from the sessions to integrate sustainable and regenerative efforts into a tourism action plan for your destination.
Who is this course for?
This Masterclass is designed for tourism and event professionals who want to start or enhance their sustainability journey.
In-house Masterclasses are scheduled based on the client's wishes and faculty members' availability.
| Online |
4 online modules: 2.5 hours each. |
| Hybrid |
2 online modules: 2.5 hours each. |
| In-person | Two days: 8 hours each, covering 2 modules per day. |
We recommend covering 1 module per week for the online delivery format. For the in-person format, we suggest a three weeks break between both interactions.
Allow 1 hour for pre-module activities and another hour for homework after each module. The final project will take about 8 hours.
Online and hybrid formats include access to the Masterclass content on the learning management system for 2 months after finishing the course.
Pricing
In-house masterclass details are available upon request.
Chief Executive Officer, GDS-Movement Guy Bigwood
For the last 15 years, Guy has been delivering award-winning consulting services focused on helping cities, governments, corporations and associations step up, scale up and speed up their sustainability programmes and regenerative practices. Guy’s pioneering work has been recognised with 22 sustainability awards including the Events Industry Council Pacesetter Award, and recognition as a Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.
Relationship Manager, Nordic Region, GDS-Movement Inge Krogh Larsen
With 25 years’ collective professional experience in travel and tourism, senior sustainability consultant, Inge Krogh Larsen, is on a mission to help destinations, CVBs, SMEs, and the meetings and events industry develop strategies and understand the need for positive change.
She fuels her mission with wisdom acquired by working in Danish business and leisure tourism for 11 years. During her time with VisitAalborg and Inspiring Denmark she naturally migrated towards sustainability. This journey was further nurtured by her employers’ participation in the GDS-Index. With a renewed and enlivened career focus on people and planet, Inge went freelance.
Relationship Manager, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Region, GDS-Movement Bella Shahsuvaryan
Bella is a Changemaker at the Global Destination Sustainability Movement where her main role is to provide guidance to destinations around the globe in developing regenerative tourism strategies. As a Relationship Manager for 20+ European destinations participating in the GDS-Index sustainability performance improvement programme, Bella offers tailored support for benchmarking assessments and year-round consulting on sustainability initiatives in English, Spanish, and French. In 2023 she was appointed as an Advisory Member at the Best Cities Global Alliance in 2023.
Director of GDS-Events and GDS-Academy, GDS-Movement Milda Salciute
Changemaker Milda has more than 10 years' experience helping meetings and events to be more sustainable.
She has managed the social, economic, and environmental impacts of in-person, digital, and hybrid events.
She consults to event clients on behalf of GDS-Movement, helping associations initiate and develop the vision, actions, measurement, and evolution of their event's sustainability strategy, impact, and communications.
Schedule |
Modules |
Customised & upon request |
Module 1 Introduction to Sustainable and Regenerative Tourism |
Customised & upon request |
Module 2 Global Regenerative Tourism Examples |
Customised & upon request |
Module 3 |
Customised & upon request |
Module 4 |
Be part of the regenerative revolution
