Tourism Skills Development Guide

Tourism Skills Development Guide

The Tourism Skills Development Guide is a project management tool that facilitates the identification of skills development needs in the tourism industry.

The Guide encourages a partnership approach by providing links to key agencies, useful networks, educational and training resources and business development support organisations.

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It provides a guide for project managers and facilitators to:

  • Develop a working group and partnership approach;
  • Undertake a skills development needs analysis;
  • Review these needs and match this with available resources, products and skills development opportunities;
  • Assist with sourcing funding; and
  • Evaluate the project

The Tourism Skills Development Guide also provides supplementary materials such as:

  • Useful Infosheets providing information on tourism, business development, jobs and careers, and the training and education industry
  • Case studies - practical examples of real learning experiences and examples of skills development delivery
  • A Refidex of resources and materials available across various sectors of the tourism industry, as well as website and magazine listings.

These materials are all freely available and beneficial to anyone in tourism and tourism-related industries such as individuals, tourism businesses, HR managers, people new to the tourism industry etc.

The Tourism Skills Development Guide can be utilised by:

  • A region, such as a tourism region or local government authority;
  • An industry network, such as the network of accredited visitor information centres;
  • An industry sector;
  • Or a medium to large organisation looking to assess their internal needs

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