MODULE 1 - INTRODUCTION TO TRAVEL DESIGN
- What is a Travel Designer
- The Origins of the Travel Designer
- Difference between traditional travel agent and travel designer
- Evolution of tourism: experiential, transformative, sustainable
MODULE 2 - SKILLS OF THE TRAVEL DESIGNER
- Tourism sector and the various types of destinations
- Research, Selection and Design Capability
- Organisational and Management Skills
- Creativity and Originality
- Communication Skills
MODULE 3 - TOURISM AND DESIGN
- Tourism marketing and market strategies
- Analysis of the target audience
- How to analyse the customer: listening, profiling and needs
- Creating tailor-made trips: experiences, stages, timing
- Tools for constructing maps, routes, co-ordinated booking
MODULE 4 - MARKETING, DESIGN AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION
- Content Creation
- Platforms and channels
- Content customisation
- SEO techniques
- social media marketing
- Content marketing strategies
MODULE 4 - BRANDING
- Personal branding: defining your niche
- Building a visual and verbal identity
- Content creation with AI: copywriting, video, reel
- Funnel and email automation for customer acquisition
MODULE 5 - BUSINESS & STRATEGY
- Business models for travel designers: freelance, agency, consultant
- Pricing: how to define your value
- Digital tools to manage customers, quotes, contracts
- Ethics and regulations in tourism
- Partnerships with suppliers and platforms
MODULE 6 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN TOURISM
- AI tools for travel research and planning
- ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Sora: how to use them to create routes, images, videos
- Customer response automation and flow management
MODULE 7 - SPIRITUAL TRAVEL DESIGNER
Travelling as a transformative and spiritual act: designing experiences that connect body, mind and spirit.
- Introduction to spiritual and transformative tourism
- Distinction between well-being, personal growth and spiritual journey
- History and current trends in spiritual tourism
- Psychogeography and sacred geography
- Destinations of high spiritual vibration
- Pilgrimage sites (e.g. Camino de Santiago, Varanasi, Machu Picchu)
- Sacred nature: forests, deserts, mountains
- Retreat centres and monasteries
- Planning spiritual journeys
- Group vs. individual travel
- Experiential elements