Tuesday, September 1 2026
Explore new online courses through the Tourism Saskatchewan Business Hub and build practical skills to support your career or tourism business.
Whether you are starting out in tourism or expanding your expertise, these flexible courses offer opportunities to strengthen your knowledge and support your professional growth.
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This five-part course dives into start-up costs, fixed and variable expenses, overheads, transaction fees, special considerations, and revenue projections. Plus, you'll gain access to a downloadable Excel costing tool to streamline your process and help secure a strong return on investment.
This introductory module explores the principles of experiential travel and introduces the Experience Design Pyramid©, a practical framework that helps tourism businesses create memorable, market-ready visitor experiences. You’ll explore the key elements that influence how visitors experience, remember, and share their time with you.
Understanding your ideal guest is fundamental to creating meaningful experiences. By identifying the key characteristics, preferences, and behaviors of your target audience, you can ensure that your efforts are aligned with their needs and expectations. This deeper understanding allows you to make informed decisions when designing experiences, ultimately leading to more impactful and engaging interactions with your guests.
This course sets the stage for any tourism business to learn the basics of packaging travel. You will be provided with three resources – a glossary of terms, a worksheet to guide you through a nine-step process to creating a package, plus an MS Excel costing template to help you cost and price your new travel package.
This course introduces the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and demonstrates how they can be applied within the tourism industry. Through Canadian and international examples, you'll discover how tourism businesses, destinations, Indigenous tourism operators, and organizations are aligning their work with the SDGs while creating stronger businesses, healthier communities, and better visitor experiences.
Around the world, travellers, communities, governments, and industry partners increasingly expect tourism to protect natural environments, respect local cultures, strengthen communities, and contribute to thriving local economies. Businesses that embrace sustainability are not only helping address global challenges, they are also building stronger brands, creating more meaningful visitor experiences, and improving their long-term competitiveness.
Sustainable tourism, responsible tourism, regenerative tourism. What do these terms really mean, and how are they shaping the future of tourism in Canada and around the world? While each approach has its own focus, they share a common goal: creating tourism experiences that reduce negative impacts, strengthen communities and cultures, protect the environment, and support long-term business success.
This self-paced course introduces a practical seven-step process that can be used to develop any policy. Along the way, you will learn key considerations for creating clear, relevant, and effective policies that support your business goals. Downloadable resources are included to help you get started.
Get ready to stay ahead of the curve. Trends are the secret weapon for entrepreneurs eager to craft unforgettable visitor experiences. In this dynamic course, you’ll explore the key trends shaping the tourism and travel industry, uncovering what’s driving change, what travellers are craving, and what’s here to stay.
Prior to launching any new or enhanced visitor experience in market, testing all the key elements of your new or enhanced visitor experience brings numerous benefits. Think of it as a dress rehearsal, a test drive, or a pilot. Whatever you wish to call it, investing in a trial run of your experience, before launching in market, is the last step in the experience development process that helps optimize the hard work and investment you’ve made to get to this point.
As global interest in wellness continues to grow, tourism businesses have a wealth of opportunities to attract a new generation of travelers focused on well-being as a key part of their experiences. This course explores the latest trends in the wellness industry and the diverse opportunities available, far beyond spas and yoga.
