Deadline: 15 July 2025
Looking for a Purpose-Led Career in Tomorrow’s Travel & Tourism Industry? Applications are now open for the Climate Friendly Travel Training Program to explore how tourism can benefit companies and communities and, conserve nature & biodiversity.
Join the world’s first online course on Climate Friendly Travel (CFT) – destined to become the “New Normal” in a Post-Pandemic, cleaner, greener, more responsible future. Discover Climate Friendly Travel and how it fits with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.
Your Climate Friendly Travel (CFT) Diploma takes you on a two year journey exploring low carbon, SDG linked, Paris 1.5, Travel & Tourism sector. It is the world’s first course dedicated to Tourism & Climate Resilience. With an aim to create 100, 000 climate champions worldwide by 2030, you will be part of a global community to assist Travel and Tourism stakeholders find green and clean pathways to the future.
Benefits
- Be part of the first online course dedicated to Tourism Climate Hope and Resilience
- Prepare to work in companies, communities and, government
- Gain work experience with one of their leading-edge Sustainability Partners
- Acquire skills and knowledge for a green, clean and resilient Travel & Tourism future
- Consider Tourism’s negative impacts and explore solutions with industry experts
- Be part of a community of global ‘Climate Champions’
- Learn and engage with colleagues from around the world
- Network and connect through group work and presentations
- Help to design and feature in the annual ‘Strong Earth Youth Summit’ (SEYS)
Duration
- 2 years (First Year lecture; Second Year internship)
Program Highlights
- Understand why Climate Change is a dominant issue on the global agenda and recognize its major impact on Travel & Tourism
- Follow the development and the science behind the impact of Climate Change on the components of Travel & Tourism – transport, hospitality services and destination activity
- Learn theoretical and practical aspects of Green Development strategy, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Understand the key elements of Climate Friendly Travel and how it will help transform the sector to meet the Paris carbon reduction targets
- Explore Europe’s Green Deal and similar new Green regional policy
- Study how clean energy will transform hotels and entertainment and how transport can grow and become Climate Neutral
Eligibility Criteria
- Their Climate Friendly Travel Diploma is the world’s first course dedicated to Tourism & Climate Change.
- It is designed for students with a passion for Sustainable Travel & Tourism who want to prepare for careers in companies, communities, and government, implementing long-term transformation.
For more information, visit SUNx Malta.
