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Welcome to the Next GEN Tourism Knowledge Hub

The NextGEN Tourism Knowledge Hub brings together practical learning, tools and guidance to support successful business succession across the tourism sector.

Whether you are planning the future of your tourism business, preparing to become a successor, supporting SMEs, or teaching the next generation of tourism professionals, the Hub provides a clear place to start.

Where should you begin?

Plan for the future of your business

Business succession can involve much more than choosing who takes over. It means preparing the business, transferring knowledge, developing future leadership and making sure the business can continue successfully through change.

Use the Knowledge Hub to:

Understand what succession readiness means for your business
Identify areas that may need attention
Work through practical succession planning tools and checklists
Learn from other tourism businesses and real succession experiences
Access short, flexible learning resources
Assess your current level of succession readiness

Recommended starting point

Take the Tourism Succession Readiness Assessment

Receive feedback on your current readiness and find learning resources and tools relevant to the areas where your business may need further preparation.

Prepare yourself as well as the business

Taking over an established tourism business can mean stepping into existing relationships, responsibilities, ways of working and expectations.

The Knowledge Hub can help you build the knowledge and skills needed to approach that transition with greater confidence.

Use the Knowledge Hub to explore: 

Preparing for your future leadership role
Transferring knowledge from the current owner
Understanding the business before taking responsibility
Communicating during a transition
Maintaining continuity while introducing change
Planning your own learning and development
Examples of successful tourism business transitions

Recommended starting point

Explore the Succession Learning Resources

Follow the learning topics relevant to your transition or use the resources individually when you need them.

Bring succession readiness into tourism education

NextGEN Tourism has been designed to help VET educators introduce succession planning into tourism and entrepreneurship education through practical, adaptable learning materials.

The resources can be used in classroom, online, hybrid and self-directed learning environments.

The Educator area will provide access to:

The Tourism Succession Readiness Competence Framework
The modular curriculum
Training modules
Lesson plans
Case studies
Practical classroom activities
Assessment and evaluation resources
Train-the-Trainer guidance
Tools that can be used directly with tourism SMEs

Recommended starting point

Explore the VET Educator Centre

See how the NextGEN Tourism materials can be incorporated into existing courses, workshops and SME support activities.

Explore Educator Resources

The project specifically aims to equip VET educators with structured resources and methodologies for supporting tourism SMEs with succession planning.

Make succession part of your business support

Business advisors, enterprise organisations, tourism bodies and chambers can play an important role in encouraging SME owners to begin succession planning early.

The Knowledge Hub gives advisors practical resources that can support conversations with tourism businesses before succession becomes urgent.

Use the Hub to:

Introduce succession readiness to SME clients
Identify common areas of succession risk
Use structured tools during advisory sessions
Direct businesses towards relevant training
Use case studies to support discussions
Encourage businesses to complete the Succession Readiness Assessment
Access research, reports and additional succession resources

Recommended starting point

Explore the Practical Toolbox

Find checklists, worksheets, templates and guidance that can be incorporated into SME mentoring and business support.

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More resources are on the way.

The NextGEN Tourism Knowledge Hub will continue to grow throughout the project, with new training materials, practical
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