Program Objectives
The Dr. Andrew L. Tan Center for Tourism, in collaboration with the School of Executive Education and Lifelong Learning, offers this program with the objective of helping tourism organizations and enterprises reboot from the pandemic. Modules will be beneficial in planning for the new normal and prepare for future crisis/pandemic management.
What You Will Learn
After the program, participants would be capable of thinking strategically about recalibrating and rebooting their sustainable tourism programs/projects and what would be the key requirements for successful implementation. Using the concepts, principles, and tools to be discussed, participants would redesign their existing tourism development plan for the new normal.
The following modules will be discussed:
- Thinking skills required in a VUCA World
- Economics of new normal
- Redefining tourism governance in the new normal
- Marketing tourism products and destinations
- Rebooting the tourism sector
- Sustainable tourism destinations and enterprises as the new normal
Key Benefits
Their recalibrated plans should touch on:
- Coordinating with various tourism-related stakeholders of their area
- Identifying and resolving issues
- Developing strategic directions and priorities
- Formulating an action plan with specific timeframe and targets
Redesigned tourism plans would be presented at the end of the program.
Who Should Attend
- National government agencies (DOT, TIEZA, TPB, among others) and local government units (governors, mayors, councilors, regional directors, tourism officers)
- Private sector (tour operators, tourism enterprises) and tourism-related organizations (HRAP, HSMA, ATOP, PHILTOA)
- Academic and tourism research institutions
- Alumni of Designing and Developing Sustainable Tourism (DDST) and Designing and Developing Smart and Urban Tourism (DDSUT)