Public Courses

Public AI Courses for Tourism Professionals

Your team is stretched thin. Guest emails pile up while your staff manually creates the same content over and over. You know AI could help, but where do you start?

Tourism AI Network’s courses gives tourism professionals across North America a clear path to AI mastery. From free introductory sessions to specialized deep dives, every course is built specifically for the realities of running hotels, DMOs, tour operations, and tourism marketing teams.

Why Tourism Professionals Choose Our AI Training Program

Group of travel and tourism professionals in a modern office, collaborating on laptops displaying AI interfaces and reviewing financial documents.

Tourism-specific training – Every example, template, and workflow is designed for guest communications, booking management, and destination marketing, not generic business use cases.

Flexible learning paths – Start with free introductory sessions, then progress to specialized courses that build real AI skills for your specific role.

Hands-on implementation – Leave every session with working templates, prompts, and systems you can use immediately in your operations.

Flexible scheduling – Flexible scheduling – Sessions designed around tourism’s busy and quieter periods.

Free AI Intuition for Tourism Professionals

What You’ll Learn: Move beyond the initial AI hype and transition into the “Utility Phase,” where the focus shifts from playing with tools to driving actual performance. In this session, you will adopt a new mental model—”System 1 vs. System 2″—to understand when to use fast, creative models versus slow, reasoning agents. You will also learn what makes a strong prompt and how context engineering takes your results to the next level. Finally, explore real-world case studies like Tourism Ch’illiwack to see how AI is solving the industry’s “efficiency squeeze” and labor shortages.

Perfect For: Anyone exploring AI for the first time, tourism professionals ready to bridge the gap from “casual users” to “strategic users”, and leaders seeking a proven 5-Step Adoption Framework to implement AI governance, automation, and workforce training safely.

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Location: Live Online via our Tourism AI Academy community 

Duration: 60 minutes (45 mins + 15 mins Q&A)

Investment: FREE (Maximum 20 participants per session)

Deep Dive AI Platform Courses

Each deep dive webinar is designed to help professionals use AI more effectively in their day-to-day work. Whether you’re looking to streamline tasks, improve customer engagement, or generate stronger content, these sessions offer practical strategies to get real results with AI.

Who Should Attend?

These courses are ideal for professionals who are already exploring AI tools and want to unlock their full potential. Whether you’re in tourism, marketing, HR, customer service, or operations, you’ll gain practical AI skills to boost workflow efficiency, spark creativity, and elevate your everyday outputs.

Deep Dive: ChatGPT

What You’ll Learn

  1. Create custom GPTs that handle your specific workflows: Build AI assistants pre-loaded with your processes, templates, and guidelines so anyone on your team can get consistent results.
  2. Generate professional images without design skills: Use ChatGPT Image to create social media graphics, presentation visuals, and marketing materials that match your brand.
  3. Chain prompts together for multi-step projects: Break complex tasks into sequences where each step feeds the next, automating everything from research to final draft.
  4. Analyze files and extract actionable insights: Upload PDFs, spreadsheets, and documents to get summaries, data analysis, and specific information without manual review.
  5. Navigate the plugin ecosystem for specialized needs: Identify which third-party tools extend ChatGPT’s capabilities for your industry and integrate them into daily work.

How Should I Prepare?

For the best experience, join from a desktop or laptop computer. We recommend subscribing to ChatGPT Plus ($20 USD/month) or Business ($30 USD/month) to access the full feature set and get the most out of the webinar.

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Location: Live Online via our Tourism AI Academy community

Duration: 75 mins

Investment: $59.99 per person

Advanced Tourism AI Courses

Ready to take your AI skills further? These specialized courses build on the deep dive foundations to tackle specific tourism challenges with advanced AI techniques.

Mastering Context Engineering for Tourism

What You’ll Master: Transform from AI user to AI expert by mastering the art and science of context engineering. Learn how to craft prompts and context that consistently deliver high-quality outputs, understand the psychology of how AI models interpret instructions, and build a personal context library that becomes your competitive advantage.

Why This Matters: The difference between average and exceptional AI outputs comes down to context engineering. Tourism professionals who master this skill save hours every week and produce content that requires minimal editing. Context engineering goes beyond simple prompts, it’s about building comprehensive frameworks that guide AI to understand your brand, your audience, and your goals.

Key Skills You’ll Gain:

  • Apply the four-layer context engineering framework to tourism scenarios
  • Create context-rich prompts that generate brand-aligned content
  • Use advanced techniques like chain-of-thought prompting and role-based instructions
  • Build and organize a tourism-specific context library
  • Troubleshoot AI outputs when results miss the mark
  • Adapt context strategies across different AI platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)
  • Develop custom instructions and system prompts for consistent outputs
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Location: Live Online via our Tourism AI Academy community

Duration: 75 mins

Investment: $79.99 per person

Deep Dive: Gemini

What You’ll Learn

  1. Automate email and calendar management: Set up workflows that summarize email threads, draft responses, and schedule meetings based on conversation context without leaving Gmail.
  2. Search and synthesize information from your Drive: Find relevant documents across folders, pull data from multiple sources, and create reports that reference your actual files.
  3. Conduct research with current, verified information: Use real-time web search and Google Scholar integration to back up claims with recent sources instead of outdated training data.
  4. Switch between text and voice for different work contexts: Know when to use Gemini Live for brainstorming sessions versus text for detailed documentation.
  5. Organize your workspace so AI can find what it needs: Structure your Drive, label emails, and set up extensions so Gemini becomes more useful over time instead of less.

How Should I Prepare?

For the best experience, join from a desktop or laptop computer. We recommend subscribing to Google AI Pro ($26.99 CAD/month) or a Google Workspace Standard ($18.40 CAD per user/month) or higher plan to access the full feature set and get the most out of the webinar.

Join us on Substack to be first to know about new course dates

Location: Live Online via our Tourism AI Academy community

Duration: 75 mins

Investment: $59.99 per person

Deep Dive: Claude

What You’ll Learn

  1. Build reusable content systems with Projects and Artifacts: Set up project workspaces that remember your brand voice, style guides, and templates so every piece of content stays consistent without starting from scratch each time.
  2. Write prompts that get professional results on the first try: Learn the structure for clear instructions that produce polished marketing copy, reports, and scripts without endless revisions.
  3. Break down complex work into manageable AI tasks: Turn overwhelming projects into step-by-step processes Claude can handle, from data analysis to multi-page reports.
  4. Create working prototypes and tools without coding experience: Use Artifacts to build functional web apps, interactive calculators, and data visualizations your team can actually use.
  5. Develop ethical AI practices for sensitive content: Understand when and how to use AI for customer communications, legal reviews, and content that requires judgment calls.

How Should I Prepare?

For the best experience, join from a desktop or laptop computer. We recommend subscribing to Claude Pro ($20 USD/month) or Teams (Standard seat, $25 USD/month) to access the full feature set and get the most out of the webinar.

Join us on Substack to be first to know about new course dates

Location: Live Online via our Tourism AI Academy community

Duration: 75 mins

Investment: $59.99 per person

What Tourism Professionals Say About Our Training

Frequently Asked Questions

The free Introduction to Generative AI is designed as your starting point if you’re new to AI. After that, any Deep Dive course can be your next step. The three advanced courses (Prompt Engineering, AI Agents, and Data Preparation) require completion of at least one Deep Dive course first, but can be taken in any order based on your priorities.

Absolutely! Many tourism organizations send their marketing team, front desk staff, or management group through courses together. This creates shared skills and makes implementation easier. Contact us for team training packages.

Yes! We run training year-round. This Winter 2025/26 calendar focuses on courses scheduled for December through March. Check back for our Spring 2026 calendar, or join our mailing list to receive training updates.

For the free Introduction, no AI tools are required, we’ll show you examples. For the Deep Dive courses, you’ll get the most value if you have an account with the platform being taught (free accounts work fine, though paid subscriptions unlock more features). We’ll provide setup instructions when you register.

Yes! Our training works whether you’re a solo tour operator, a boutique hotel with 10 rooms, or a regional DMO serving hundreds of members. We include examples and applications across the full spectrum of tourism operations, and our instructors adjust based on who’s in each session.

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