RESET (Resilient and Sustainable Enterprises in Tourism): Supporting small enterprises in the tourism sector to survive and thrive during the COVID-19 pandemic

o Tourism is one of the world’s major economic sectors and plays a crucial role in advancing the 2030 Agenda. For every directly created tourism job, nearly one and a half additional jobs are created on an indirect or induced basis. In addition, the majority of tourism enterprises are micro, small and medium sized enterprises. However, tourism is also one of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic impacting economies, livelihoods, public services as well as nature and heritage conservation across all continents. In response to the adverse impacts of COVID-19 on international tourism and in line with its ongoing work on business resilience, the International Labour Organization (ILO) proposes to implement in cooperation with national private sector partners from the tourism industry, the RESET (Resilient and Sustainable Enterprises in Tourism) project from September 2021 to September 2022. RESET aims at enhancing the resilience of small enterprises in the tourism sector through a three-pronged approach that combines: 1) training and coaching services to build resilience capacities and systems at enterprise level with an emphasis on risk sharing solutions, 2) recognition schemes to promote small enterprises that have installed business resilience capacities and systems successfully, and. 3) public-private dialogues to identify and advocate for business resilience policy priorities, which harness a resilient business eco-system.

Project symbol

GLO/21/22/DEU

Admin unit

MSME

Start date

01/11/2021

End date

30/11/2022

Total allocation

470220

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

449156

Development Partners

Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises for inclusive growth and decent work