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Lorri Krebs
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This certificate program has been designed for prospective students seeking opportunities or graduates seeking professional advancement in the tourism industry. Along with sustainability principles, it covers a range of policy objectives (such as urban and rural regeneration, wildlife conservation, climate change issues, understanding the built environment, ecotourism planning and outdoor recreation planning and management) within the context of programs for sustainable development. In doing so, it seeks to provide students with the skills and techniques to develop tourism policies and to manage tourism development and enterprises, towards more sustainable practices.
With only 5 courses required, this program can be completed alongside any major within one academic year. Classes are offered in person, online and hyflex options.
Students will become leaders in sustainable tourism through:
- Understanding the role of sustainability in tourism business today, as it relates to corporate strategy, business operations, financial objectives, and social responsibility.
- Learning how to analyze relevant economic, social, and environmental data as applied to a wide range of corporate sustainability case studies from the travel industry.
- Examining strategies, policies and principles for sustainability in various tourism businesses (hotels, resorts, restaurants, travel agencies, events, natural areas, parks, etc.).
- Identifying and applying intervention strategies to mediate tourism development impacts.
This is an ideal program if you are:
- A student seeking a degree in a compatible field such as: education – interpretive programs for school groups and tours; history – museum studies, English – travel writing, hospitality, communications, marketing, accounting – for hospitality or tourism businesses, technology, sports or recreation, planning and urban studies and many more.
- Working in the tourism industry and would like to deepen your understanding of sustainability
- Interested in joining the sustainable tourism industry
- Starting or changing your career
- Planning to start your own sustainable tourism business