Responsible tourism courses

Tourism's impacts and discussions of ethics in tourism

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Tourism can potentially bring positive impacts to local places and people, but can also create harm and inconveniences. This course brings you the many different interesting impacts tourism brings and how tourism can often present ethical dilemmas.

Tourism, water scarcity and poverty reduction

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Tourism is an industry that potentially brings about positive and negative impacts; the ethical dilemma tourism creates, from causing water scarcity in some places, to contributing to rising property prices and loss of lands of indigenous people.

Climate change and community based tourism

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What does climate change and community based tourism have to do with each other? How does climate change adaptation pose risks to community based tourism strategies? This is a course rarely seen and we hope you will enjoy the knowledge.

Establishing pro-poor tourism

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Pro-poor tourism is increasingly popular, with many such initiatives in many places. What are the objectives associated with pro-poor tourism? What makes pro-poor tourism challenging? Find out in this interesting 4 hour course!

Global warming and rising sea levels - how the tourism industry is affected

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Creating a tourism trail - understanding the benefits and the challenges

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What are the purposes of tourism trails? What do ecotourism and heritage trails do? What are the challenges faced in establishing such trails?