Are you a decision-maker working in or with tourism and interested in making the sector, your destination or your business more sustainable, resilient and competitive? The Distinguished Education Course of ‘Tourism for Sustainable Development. A Global Initiative for Public and Private Sector Executives’ will help you turn such an ambition into reality.

Tourism for Sustainable Development (Tou4SD) is a joint initiative by the World Economic Forum, the UN World Tourism Organization and their Swiss partners: the Global Compact Network Switzerland & Liechtenstein, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons.

The five partners have the competence and determination to help transform tourism into a driving force of the UN Agenda 2030 and to make sustainability a success factor for destinations and businesses around the world.

To this end, they carry out the first Distinguished Education Course between November 2021 and June 2022. An exclusive group of 20 to 25 public and private sector executives will work and learn together both online and in Switzerland to become champions and ambassadors of a sustainable, resilient and competitive tourism. We invite you to become one of them!

Target group

The Distinguished Education Course is aimed at you, a decision-maker from industrialised, emerging and developing economies who shapes tourism in the public and private sector. You work in or with a tourism ministry, in a destination management organisation, an enterprise or business association.

If you are a public sector executive, you will learn how to promote development through sustainable tourism.

If you are a private sector executive, you will learn how to make sustainability a success factor for your tourism business.