Grow Tourism is equipping a workforce with the skills, insights and knowledge to build New Zealand’s high value tourism future.
Meaningful and engaging, enjoy professional development courses that deliver high-impact skill development and career progression.
The tourism and hospitality industry is diverse, exciting and ever-changing. Grow Tourism offers bite-sized, online learning pathways and NZQA-recognised Micro-credentials. Explore exciting learning concepts in the context of trail-blazing tourism brands like AJ Hackett Bungy and Redwoods Treewalk and develop your skillset and career prospects.
What Does Grow Tourism Offer?
Developed by industry, for industry, Grow Tourism delivers highly relevant, skills-based learning for tourism and hospitality professionals. Bite-sized pathways take learners on a journey of best-practice learning concepts, delivered in the context of real-world tourism and hospitality businesses. Learning topics are based on future-focused needs like management, sustainability and customer service, and NZQA-recognised micro-credentials delivered in collaboration with Queenstown Resort College provide national recognition of learning accomplishments.
- Choose from industry-led, expert-fed learning pathways or NZQA-recognised Micro-Credentials
- Your own individual learning dashboard to track your progress
- Use Grow Tourism to lean in to a growth mindset and enhance your career opportunities
Grow Tourism for Individuals
Our range of Grow Tourism learning experiences help you build and enhance your career in tourism and hospitality. Take control of your own skill development and career journey.
What sets us apart?
Get ready to unlock potential and stand out from the crowd.
Industry-led, expert fed.
Real-life learnings from businesses like Rotorua Canopy Tours are at the heart of every Grow Tourism module.
Personal learning dashboard
Your own personal learning dashboard allows you to reflect and build your own learning journey.
Tiered learning
Skill-based tiered learning pathways from our core curriculum caters to a broad range of people – from those just starting out to senior managers and business owners.
Customisable programs
Achieve pathway badges OR NZQA-recognised micro-credentials as you learn, enabling current and future employers to recognise your skill development and enhancing your CV.
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Exciting, interesting learning and development is a game changer when it comes to growing a career in tourism and hospitality. I love the bite-sized nature of Grow Tourism’s modules, how they’re easy to fit around a busy lifestyle, and how they combine to build Micro-credentials. It’s the flexible and meaningful type of upskilling our industry needs to keep our workforce engaged and inspired.
Charlotte Brady
ex-Chair, YoungTEC New Zealand
