ESG Value Creation in Tourism & Hospitality

Sustainable production in tourism and hospitality is the art of crafting extraordinary experiences while preserving the very essence that makes our destinations unique. It is a commitment to balance progress and preservation, where innovation, responsibility, and conscious choices harmonize to create a lasting legacy of enriching journeys and a thriving planet for generations to come.

Next Date
To be defined
Length
4 weeks
Format
B-learning
Investment
250€ (under 23) 400€

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ESG Value Creation in Tourism & Hospitality

Overview

This module focuses on sustainability as a factor for creating value, innovation, risk management, talent acquisition and retention, customer loyalty, and competitiveness. Participants will be prepared to recognize the multiple challenges, obligations, risks, and opportunities related to sustainability in the T&H industry and respond to them by reevaluating their current strategies and practices to pursue relevant environmental, social, and good governance (ESG) objectives, with an impact on the organization, its business, and the value chain.

This course is part of a six-module Postgraduation. If you are interested in participating in any other modules, please contact us or visit the Sustainable Strategies for Tourism & Hospitality Postgraduation page.

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Course Content

PROGRAMME:

Setting the scene: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Tourism & Hospitality Industry (T&H); Current trends and challenges; Corporate responsibility and sustainability, ESG and (sustainable) financing; Political, legislative and regulatory frameworks
Corporate sustainability: Corporate purpose, ESG and value creation; Designing a sustainability strategy: from diagnosing and analysing dual materiality, to mapping and involving stakeholders, and setting targets; Governance and Disclosure of ESG information and transparency
Seminar: Promoting sustainable tourism organisations and destinations

Learning Outcomes

The ESG Value Creation in Tourism & Hospitality course will enable you to acquire fundamental knowledge and skills to respond to the challenges currently facing organisations in the T&H industry in the context of sustainable development.

In particular, it will enable professionals to acquire skills in rethinking current strategies and action practices to pursue relevant environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives and disseminate ESG information.

Participants profile

The ESG Value Creation in Tourism & Hospitality course is aimed at a variety of professionals and students who play important roles in promoting sustainable tourism.

Here are some examples of participant profiles:

Advisors and Consultants on sustainability;
Trainers and researchers in sustainable tourism;
Government agencies related to tourism;
Regional governments or public tourism companies;
Public-private tourism development organisations;
Museums and tourist centres;
Managers and leaders of tourism companies, hotels and resorts;
Managers of tour operators;
Decision-makers involved in non-governmental organisations (NGOs);
Other participants wishing to enter the tourism and hospitality industry.

Program Coordination

Sandra Martinho

Managing partner of Lasting Values

She has been working on climate and sustainability for 25 years. She began her career at NOVA FCT, teaching for ten years. She took part in several landmark studies to support environmental policy in Portugal. She was a climate advisor to the Portuguese government, a national delegate to the UNFCCC and a member of the European Commission’s EU Further-Action Group for Climate Change (2000/04).

In 2004, she co-founded a consultancy and development company in environmental and energy economics and engineering, a national benchmark in its areas of activity. In 2005, she launched the first voluntary carbon market instrument in Portugal, winner of a Stevie® Award, whose operation has expanded to Spain and Brazil.

A specialist in the economics of natural resources, net zero, climate resilience and the (bio-)circular economy, she has solid skills and vast experience in executive management and consultancy, anchored in a long history of leading projects in organisations and companies from different sectors and geographies.

She is the managing partner of Lasting Values.