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ICTP offers free scholarships for first Green Growth Course
ICTP is to sponsor of the world’s first summer school on Green Growth and Travelism with a special focus on Climate Resilience
Part of a new series of events designed for the sector – communities, companies and social entrepreneurs – plan for the coming changes in the travel and tourism marketplace.
ICTP is offering 3 free scholarships for attendance at the school covering the course fee and accommodation. Applications (CV and motivation letter) must be sent to Marie-Julie Chaput at [email protected] before June 27th to be reviewed by ICTP’s executive and advisory boards. The selected individuals will be then announced beginning of July.
The event is open to graduate students and managers in the industry and destinations. It has been designed as a highly interactive learning experience with a strong focus on the challenges and opportunities for decision makers.
Keynote speakers include Ignace Schops Director of Belgium’s National Park, Goldman Awardee, Ashoka and Al Gore Leadership Fellow; Geoffrey Lipman Former President WTTC & Assistant Secretary General UNWTO, Creative Disruption Architect Greenearth.travel; Geert Wets Head of Hasselt University Transportation Research Institute; Terry DeLacy Professor in Sustainable Tourism and Major Events at Victoria University Australia; Shaun Vorster Extraordinary Associate Professor at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa; Imtiaz Muqbil Editor Travel Impact Newswire, Asia Pacific and Valere Tjolle Editor Vision on Sustainable Tourism, UK, among others.
For more information, click here http://www.uhasselt.be/GGTsummerschool
The Green Growth & Travelism Institute is a non-profit international University R&D network. It has anchor university partners in Belgium, Australia, China, Peru, Korea, Indonesia, Zambia and the UK, with a dozen more under discussion. Its goal is to create an academic underpinning to the Green Growth & Travelism paradigm – with shared curriculum elements, summer schools, distance learning & entrepreneurship focused programs.
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