Revolutionise the way you see, think and feel about tourism to deliver positive impact outcomes for people and place.
Working in tourism has never been more complex.
The pandemic magnified the interconnectedness and interdependence of our sector, and highlighted the impact of visitors on our local communities, economies and environments.
This, coupled with a strong urgency for action around climate and biodiversity, is challenging our leaders to think and act more creatively than ever before.
We are living in an era of continued change, with many tough challenges still to come. But the question is, how can the sector we all know and love be a force for good?
This innovative new Program (for people working in Regional, Local or State Tourism Organisations) has been designed to explore your role in this, and what you can influence and support to ensure tourism has a positive impact on your people and places.
Tourism Impact Leaders will challenge you to think differently about tourism.
Tourism Impact Leaders is an immersive, participatory, peer-to-peer driven leadership program, designed to bring together leaders in tourism to grow perspectives, explore solutions to common challenges, and build capability to provide leadership in the industry in a time of constant flux and uncertainty.
Throughout our time together, we'll dive deep into the mindset required to ensure you and your organisation are equipped and confident to lead and steward a resilient destination for the future.
We'll also explore concepts and strategies to help you navigate the change we're experiencing, connect the dots to work collaboratively to achieve positive outcomes in your destination and create impact at scale through the work you can control and influence.
At the end of the Program, we guarantee you'll see tourism and your role in the ecosystem with a fresh perspective, feeling energised and empowered to leverage tourism as a force for good.
How the Program works...
Tourism Impact Leaders has been purposefully designed to nurture self-reflection, and strategic thinking to guide practical implementation.
A series of learning modules and concurrent group conversations will explore relevant, industry-specific insights, issues, and opportunities to help build an awareness of the current state and potential desired future state.
Participants will be given time between modules to consider what they have learned in context to their situation, ready to explore their challenges and co-create solutions with their peers.
Pre-Program BRiefing
Before we begin, we will schedule a meet and greet with you and your team, review your current priorities, and understand your place-based challenges so we can align your situation throughout the program content.
Four Learning Modules
The Program is underpinned by four learning modules delivered as live online webinars. Details of each of the learning module topics are outlined below.
Four Thriving Conversations
Each learning module live online webinar will be complemented with a thriving conversation to unpack the learnings from the live webinar in further detail.
POST-PROGRAM PLANNING SESSION
Once we've completed the four learning modules and facilitated conversations, we will sit down together again to review your learnings, and discuss next steps for you to implement your learnings.
Learning Module Topics
Through this Program, we'll explore the following content.
Key Dates & Times
Our next round will begin in February 2025, with monthly Learning Module Webinars & Online Group Discussions.
Exact dates to be announced in November 2024.
Module One
February TBC
Facilitated Learning
(10:30am-12noon ACST)
February TBC
Group Discussion/Learning
(10:30am-11am ACST)
Module Two
March TBC
Facilitated Learning
(10:30am-12noon ACST)
March TBC
Group Discussion/Learning
(10:30am-11am ACST)
Module Three
May TBC
Facilitated Learning
(10:30am-12noon ACST)
May TBC
Group Discussion/Learning
(10:30am-11am ACST)
Module Four
June TBC
Facilitated Learning
(10:30am-12noon ACST)
June TBC
Group Discussion/Learning
(10:30am-11am ACST)
Hi, we're Jaclyn, Paige and Rebecca, the managing directors of The Tourism Collective,
and we look forward to guiding your learning experience.
As a team, we began this very journey of discovery and sense-making when we could see the vulnerability of our tourism sector through the pandemic, and started question what we could change in how we approach our work that would make a difference in the future.
In that time, we have prioritised our own learning by reading widely across academia and case studies, listening to many different perspectives from our consulting peers and those working within the tourism ecosystem at all different levels, to build our awareness of the challenges, and also to uncover solutions for consideration.
We've made it our mission to deeply understand the challenge ahead and the considerations in context for the tourism sector, and we've determined 'how' this looks for our peers who are managing the supply and demand priorities for destinations.
We're created this Program to build a group of likeminded individuals and organisations who are curious, like we continue to be, about how tourism can add to the vitality and resilience of our local places and people.
Why join the Program?
With all well-considered commitments, it's important to be sure the outcomes align with your needs, and so below outlines the key benefits you can expect if you decide to participate in the Tourism Impact Leaders Program.