SERVICES
Teaching and Training
We teach at universities and universities of applied sciences and train multipliers.
Current
Educational materials
response & ability has created innovative educational materials on the future of tourism together with Helga Mayr from the University College of Teacher Education Tyrol and is making them freely available in German and English at https://www.responseandability.com/futurebox/.
Education and Training is the starting point for development processes and sustainability in tourism.
Danube Guides
In the INTERREG Danube project ‚LENA – Local Economy and Nature Conservation in the Danube Region‘, Christian prepared the module ‘Danube Guides’ on behalf of the Donaubüro Ulm. In doing so, trainers for sustainable education from all Danube countries were trained and, together with these trainers, courses conducted in six countries. The project will continue through funding from Baden-Württemberg.
Based on a set of common quality criteria they follow a general approach of sustainable development. Danube Guides offer tourist services that combine education for sustainable development with the experience of nature and culture.
2017-2027
since 2004
Lectures
University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons, Switzerland (formerly HTW Chur) – Christian Baumgartner holds a professorship in Sustainable Tourism and leads the specialization ‘Sustainable Tourism and International Development’. He teaches in the Bachelor of Science in Tourism, in the Master in Tourism and Change and the study program in Shanghai / China.
Bachelorstudium Tourismus
Master’s degree programme in Tourism and ChangeFH Vienna (A): Bachelor Tourism-Management
Bachelor’s degree in tourismIMC FH Krems (A) – Christian taught at IMC Krems from 2004-2025.
University of Vienna, Austria, University Course Cooperative Urban and Regional Development
Kooperative Stadt- und RegionalentwicklungSummer School & Simulation Game
Summer School ‘Sustainable Leadership’, Iceland
Since 2016 Christian Baumgartner has been teaching at a Summer School at the University of Bifröst in Iceland. Topics such as corporate social responsibility, climate change and sustainable development, such as the STRATAGEM simulation game on the sustainable development of an emerging economy, are developed and discussed with an international group of students.
Stratagem simulation game
In the 1990s, Dennis Meadows, author of The Limits to Growth, developed the strategic simulation game Stratagem, which realistically simulates—on a computer-assisted board—the (more or less) sustainable development of an emerging country. Christian Baumgartner offers to facilitate the simulation game for groups. Time required: 6–8 hours.
since 2016
2021-23
Life education
High Atlas / Morocco: From the “living school” to holistic life education. Sustainable tourism in local hands.
Financed by EZA Vorarlberg, Christian works with Weltweitwandern Wirkt! on basic tourism training for disadvantaged young people and women in Ait Bougmez in the High Atlas. The campus vivande aims to offer theoretical and practical entry opportunities into tourism.
https://www.weltweitwandernwirkt.org/bildungsprojekte/marokko/Studiosus tour guide training
For the German tour operator Studiosus, the focus ‘Sustainable Travel’ was implemented in the 2019/20 tour guide innovation events.
2019-2020
2018-2020
Worldwide Guidetraining for Welt-weitwandern
For the Austrian tour operator Weltweitwandern and its partner agencies on all continents, a system of training trainers and guides is being developed and in a trainer course, three regional guide courses (probably in Morocco, Nepal and Montenegro) and several crash-courses implemented.
Particular attention is paid to cross-cultural approaches and the teaching of the special Weltweitwandern philosophy.
Armenia - Georgia
In cooperation with the Boku, Vienna and the IMC Krems as well as partner universities in Yerevan and Tbilisi, the project ‘CaucaSust – Transdisciplinarity for Sustainable Tourism Develop-ment’ is training Armenian and Georgian university teachers. The partners aim to address real-life challenges of sustainable tourism development in cooperation in the Caucasus region, together with the local population and other Stakeholders.
2017-2018
2016-2017
Sustainable training & green jobs
Sustainability in Tourism Education in Albania
The aim of the project in Albania was to integrate sustainability aspects into the revised curricula of various tourism professions. Directors and teachers from Albanian tourism schools have been targeting workshops to develop and share the new content.
Green Jobs in Green Destinations, Romania
response & ability develops together with CIPRA Schweiz, AER (Association of Ecotourism Romania) and ProPark training courses and -material for ecotourism-destinations in Romania. Aside manager the project will train guides in hiking, mountainbiking, horseback riding, ski touring, kayaking, wildlife watching and nature interpretation.
e-learning training materials
InRuTou (Innovation in Rural Tourism) aimed at developing and testing a set of e-learning tools for facilitating the development of sustainable tourism in rural areas, specifically in mountainous regions.
2013-2015
2012-2015
Guidelines ’Sustainable Tourism Offers’ (German only)
Christian was member of the advisory board, that analysed from 2012 to 2015 together with the university of applied science Luzern (CH) and the destinations Arosa, Scuol Val Müstair, Interlaken, Luzern and Entlebuch how sustainable tourism offers could be developed and marketed.
Weitere Infos auf www.hslu.ch/nachhaltige-tourismusangebote
(Stakeholder)-Trainings
Training
Training course ‘Project development, application and management’ for members of the Danube Competence Centre (DCC) in Belgrade.
Kyrgyzstan – Strengthening social partnership development in vocational education and training
Development of quality management, training curricula for the vocational training of different tourism stakeholder groups. Training of multipliers and trainers, guidance during their first stakeholder training course.
Project financed by EU, GD EuropeAid / Central Asian Development Platform. Project Management by Gustav Stresemann Institute, Germany.
2013-2014
2010-2011
Danube Delta
GIZ (German Society for International Cooperation) funded the organisation of a series of training courses designed to improve the quality of sustainable tourism. Target groups were stakeholders and project managers from all the three countries situated in the delta – Romania, Ukraine and Moldova.
Egypt
Training courses in Sustainable Tourism for representatives of the Egyptian Tourism Authority and other tourism bodies. Within the framework of a EU-funded Austrian-Egyptian twinning project.
2009
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