• Familiarize yourself with diverse tourism futures, some more mainstream, some more radical
• Identify needs concerning more resilient/regenerative destinations
• Explore systemic tendencies to act upon threats and opportunities
• Reflect on personal/organizational tendencies to act towards uncertain tourism future(s)
• Apply the art of futuring to make well-informed and creative decisions for a future-proof travel
• Back-cast and identify steps that are required to get there

Module 1: Future Tourism Pathways

Introduction to the course and a preview of the course; how the course is organized and what to expect; Introducing methods, tools and assignments; Introducing the team and the opportunity to meet other learners.

Being Familiar with the pros and cons of diverse tourism future pathways and exploring alternative tourism pathways; introducing of course assignment: learners start identifying typical path dependencies in real-life cases.

Module 2: Status Quo of Tourism

Evolving and complex systemic tendencies to act upon threats and opportunities; Dominant ideas and discourses; A systematic analysis of the present; Learners must challenge taken-for-granted ideas/actions by incorporating events and knowledge beyond their known knowns.

Module 3: Transforming Tourism

Engagement with a plurality of perspectives and wider goal dependencies/ how to trigger a change; barriers and opportunities to change; learners reflexively unpack their envisioned actions in light of plural goals adopted towards a (seemingly) common tourism future. They will identify potential barriers in their pathway and how to bridge them.

"Thank the teachers and team advisors because it has been a very educational course and will undoubtedly serve me well in the future and more, now that we are increasingly realizing the importance of sustainability and the repercussions."