Linking skill education with the observation of global special days: An example

Activity 1: Read the following post of the UN which has been abridged for students of middle school students ((https://www.un.org/en/observances/tourism-resilience-day)

Proclaimed by the United Nations, the Global Tourism Resilience Day is observed on 17 February every year to emphasize the need to foster resilient tourism development through private-public cooperation as well as diversification of activities and products.

Resilient tourism means the tourism industry's ability to face and overcome crises and disasters (such as outbreak of diseases, recession and natural disasters), minimizing their impacts, and strengthening the sector. Thus, deliberate and planned actions are needed at tourist destinations and businesses so that the industry can recover more quickly from crises and disasters, maintaining their competitiveness and long-term sustainability

For many developing countries and middle-income countries, tourism is a major source of income, foreign currency earnings, tax revenue and employment. Because tourism connects people with nature, sustainable tourism has the unique ability to spur environmental responsibility and conservation.

Sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, is a cross-cutting activity that can contribute to the three dimensions of sustainable development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals the UN by fostering economic growth, alleviating poverty, creating full and productive employment and decent work for all.

It can also play a role in accelerating the change to more sustainable consumption and production patterns and promoting the sustainable use of local resources, promoting local culture, improving the quality of life and the economic empowerment of women and young people, indigenous peoples and local communities and promoting rural development and better living conditions for rural populations, including small-holder and family farmers.

The use of sustainable and resilient tourism as a tool to foster sustained and inclusive economic growth, social development and financial inclusion, enables the formalization of the informal sector, the promotion of domestic resource mobilization and environmental protection and the eradication of poverty and hunger, including the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and natural resources and the promotion of investment and entrepreneurship in sustainable tourism.

Activity 2: Reread and underline 24 words; list them and select 12 words to create a word-search puzzle

Activity 3: List rest of 12 words and write their meaning from the dictionary

Activity 4: Create a crossword puzzle with meanings as clues

Other topics could be the following

• Jobs related to tourism as vocation

• Linking of tourism with other industries

• Roles and skills of a tourist guide

Practical or project

• Preparing a local educational tourism guide booklet

• Internship at the tourism information centre or tourism company

• Exploring the link between tourism and hospitality sector or transport sector

• Creating a local tourism website