Developed by CambodiaTourismOriginalSustainable heritage tourism development
This course equips heritage managers, tour operators and local communities in Cambodia and the wider CLMV region with practical knowledge to develop sustainable tourism along heritage corridors. Learners will understand conservation principles, community-based tourism models, destination carrying capacity management, sustainable marketing and service quality and safety standards.
- 7 chapters · 21 lessons
- About 1.5 h
- 5 languages
- Bilingual certificate
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What you will learn
- Explain the three pillars of sustainable tourism and apply four conservation principles when developing tourism at a heritage site.
- Build a community-based tourism model with a transparent benefit-sharing mechanism for local people.
- Determine destination carrying capacity and apply suitable tools to manage visitor flow and reduce environmental impact.
- Build a sustainable destination marketing strategy, link cross-border tourism routes, and maintain service quality and visitor safety standards.
Course description
Heritage corridors across the CLMV region, from the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia to many other cultural and natural heritage sites, are attracting rapidly growing visitor numbers. This growth brings important revenue but also raises major challenges for conservation, community benefit sharing and carrying capacity management without an appropriate plan.
The course has seven chapters, moving from why sustainable tourism matters, through conservation principles for cultural and natural heritage, community-based tourism, destination carrying capacity management, destination marketing and cross-border route linkages, to service quality standards and visitor safety. Each chapter includes a video lecture, an in-depth reading and a short quiz.
The content is practice-oriented, grounded in the cultural and natural heritage sites common across Cambodia and the CLMV region, with concrete tools and processes that managers, businesses and communities can apply right away.
Course syllabus
7 chapters · 21 lessons · 7 quizzes- The three pillars of sustainable heritage tourism · Video lecture5 min
- The three pillars of sustainable tourism and lessons from heritage corridors · Reading5 min
- Quiz: Why sustainable tourism along heritage corridors matters · Quiz3 questions