Are you a Destination Management Organisation, Regional or National Tourism organisation looking to play your part in driving meaningful climate action in your destination? Do you wonder how to include your destination's key partners in developing a climate action plan?
This masterclass is designed to empower you with the knowledge and skills to develop actionable strategies for driving positive change with destination management practices. You will learn how to minimise the negative and maximise the positive impacts of the tourism and events sector in your community.
Through a series of five modules, participants will learn about the importance of developing climate action plans, telling credible climate action stories and building resilience to climate impacts.
What will you learn at this course?
Comprehensive Understanding
Expand your understanding of climate change, its implications for tourism destinations, and the role of destination management organizations in addressing climate-related challenges.
Practical Guidance
Learn to assess destination carbon footprints, implement decarbonisation strategies, and receive guidance to formulate effective climate action plans.
Strategic Insights
Gain strategic insights into building climate resilience, fostering stakeholder engagement, and communicating your organisation’s climate action efforts to leverage meaningful partnerships.
Who is this course for?
This masterclass is designed for professionals from DMOs, RTOs, NTOs and their key partners in the destination. It is suitable for team members from all departments across the organization, including marketing and communications, product development, partnerships, business events, and procurement.
In-house Masterclasses are scheduled based on the client's wishes and faculty members' availability.
| Online |
5 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.
Relationship Manager (UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria) & Destination Climate Action Expert, GDS-Movement
Janie Neumann
Janie has over 20 years' experience in the tourism industry, working to support the delivery of responsible practices that benefit and build resilient businesses, provide enriching quality experiences for visitors, enhance the communities tourism operates in, and protect the natural and cultural heritage it depends on.
Lecturer in Tourism, The University of Queensland
Dr. Mireia Guix
Dr. Mireia Guix is a Lecturer in tourism at the UQ Business School, The University of Queensland. With a PhD in Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Surrey and an MSc in Responsible Tourism at Leeds Beckett University. Her work focuses on creating positive change, exploring how tourism and hospitality organizations can effectively address and contribute to solutions for grand challenges while fostering transparency and accountability in their operations. LinkedIn
Consulting Futurist, GDS-Movement
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie is a keynote speaker, writer, communications specialist, serial entrepreneur and futurist. As well as the Consulting Futurist at the GDS-Movement, Ed is a facilitator with the Forward Institute for responsible leadership, a Director of Greenpeace UK, a Trustee of Energy Revolution, and a founder investor and former Chair of pioneering online rail ticketing business ‘Loco2’ now rebranded as Rail Europe. Ed co-hosts Itunes chart-topping podcast ‘Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts’ and ‘The Great Humbling’.
Schedule |
Modules |
Customised & upon request |
Module 1 Understanding Climate Change and its Impacts on Tourism |
Customised & upon request |
Module 2 Strategies for Decarbonisation |
Customised & upon request |
Module 3 Regeneration and Resilience |
Customised & upon request |
Module 4 Measuring, Monitoring, and Reporting |
Customised & upon request |
Module 5 Introduction to Destination Climate Action Plans |
Be part of the regenerative revolution
