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:
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:
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:
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:
Recommended starting point
Explore the Practical Toolbox
Find checklists, worksheets, templates and guidance that can be incorporated into SME mentoring and business support.
More resources are on the way.
The NextGEN Tourism Knowledge Hub will continue to grow throughout the project, with new training materials, practical
tools, case studies, expert insights and curated resources added as they become available.
