Eco Tourism & E-Business

CMD Training Institute is delighted to be delivering a brand new innovative course ‘Eco-Tourism & E-Business’. This course was initiated by the Meath Partnership in response to a growing need for skills in the emerging Eco-Tourism industry in Ireland. Eco Tourism is Defined as “Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well being of local people”. In other words, touring local heritage sites and exploring your local environment.

Ecotourism is about uniting conservation, communities and sustainable travel. This means that those who implement and participate in ecotourism activities should follow the following eco-tourism principles:

• Minimise impact
• Build environmental and cultural awareness and respect
• Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts
• Provide direct financial benefits for conservation
• Provide financial benefits and empowerment for local people
• Raise sensitivity to host countries' political, environmental and social climate

Meath Partnership recognised that the Travel & Tourism industry is the largest business sector in the world. It is a growing industry with a huge amount of business opportunities in the local Meath economy. Meath Partnership decided to develop local entrepreneur’s skills in the areas of business start up, eco tourism, E-business and E-commerce so that they would be in a position to exploit some of these opportunities.

CMD Training Institute was picked to deliver this training course to over 29 local entrepreneurs. We helped to develop their business ideas from anything to fishing, self catering accommodation, adventure centres, handcrafts to a bakery. We helped them to plan out their course of action and get their businesses up and running online. We worked closely alongside Ireland’s leading eco-tourism expert Mary Mulvey from greenbox.ie. We had an absolutely brilliant time working with such a diverse group of entrepreneurs. We would like to wish them the best of luck with their new business ventures.