Designing the Future of Tourism Together
ACCESS FORWARD helps brands and communities benefit from authentic tourism solutions designed by student-powered innovation labs.
Three Year Scope & Reach
Measurable Outcomes & Impact
SDG 8-Aligned Decent Work
ACCESS FORWARD directly maps to global development frameworks, ESG mandates, and tourism-for-development agendas.
This turns tourism from a volume game into an engine of SDG 8—documenting new jobs, better jobs, and stronger incomes for diverse talent around the world.
Economic Inclusion & Local Wealth Retention
ACCESS FORWARD shifts tourism spend toward locally owned businesses and entrepreneurs, especially women and youth.
This keeps more visitor dollars circulating in community hands—strengthening household incomes, local enterprises, and long-term community wealth.
Ventures, Products & Programs Created
ACCESS FORWARD's repeatable cohorts of university students generate new ideas, innovative solutions, and new ventures.
They function as applied R&D labs for inclusive tourism—producing investable ventures and actual initiatives, products and tools, not just insights.
Future-Ready Diverse Talent Pipeline
With every spring and fall cohort, ACCESS FORWARD builds a global pipeline of future leaders in inclusive, sustainable tourism.
Students move from classroom projects into portfolio-ready work, real roles, new ventures, and career pathways—while sponsors gain early access to diverse talent spanning multiple disciplines, destinations, and lived experiences.
Scalable New Practical Standards
ACCESS FORWARD turns pilots into new norms and standards for how responsible and sustainable tourism operates.
Partners use student-powered evidence and community insights to create and update policies, standards, and institutional practices for inclusive hospitality.
Trust, Safety & Authentic Representation
ACCESS FORWARD helps destinations co-design tourism experiences that feels safer, fairer, and more authentic for residents and travelers.
This reduces reputational risk and harm while strengthening long-term trust, resilience, and cultural dignity in every place we work.
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Accessible, Inclusive, Responsible, Sustainable Tourism
We look forward to exploring possibilities for collaboration and funding partnerships.