PM4SD™ Certification

This certification is seen as an important benchmark for the competitiveness and growth of the tourism industry. The qualification scheme was developed by APMG-International in partnership with FEST, the Foundation for European Sustainable Tourism, an organization dedicated to supporting governments, academies and organisations in planning, delivering and managing tourism programs and projects with sustainability.

Who is it for?

• Understand and learn how to design and implement tourism projects in line with sustainable tourism policies and practices.
• Learn a range of tools and techniques to be used for managing projects and workloads with sustainability.
• Increase your productivity.
• Enhance your career.
• Increase your job opportunities as a tourism project manager.
• Peer to peer networking.
• Increase international opportunities.
• Manage your team effectively.
• Apply knowledge related to sustainable tourism.
• Use sustainable tourism indicators and criteria internationally recognized by organizations which are committed to sustainable tourism.
• Enhance specialist skills such as planning and implementation by adding best practices.
• Be part of the growing number of the PM4SD professionals.
• Aids you in applying for public funding successfully.
• Learn how to design innovative tourism projects.

• Improve quality and communication through an organization-wide common language.
• Plan and manage tourism programs and projects with efficiency and sustainability.
• Incorporate tourism sustainability in your organization.
• Grow your organization with highly qualified tourism managers.
• Motivate your team.
• Build sustainable public-private partnerships.
• Reduce costs and increase productivity.
• Receive funding through demonstration of applying a structured method.
• Measure long term benefits.
• Maximize the value of project management investments for both donors and implementers.
• Use international best practices to encourage sustainability of tourism projects and build communities of professional project managers.
• Increase opportunities for international partnerships

The purpose of the Foundation qualification is to confirm that you have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the PM4SD methods to be able to work effectively with, or as a member of, a project management team working within an environment supporting PM4SD.

Exam Format

• Multiple Choice
• 50 questions per paper
• 25 marks or more required to pass (out of 50 available) - 50%
• 40 minutes duration
• Closed-book.

The purpose of the Practitioner qualification is to confirm whether you have achieved sufficient understanding of how to apply and tailor PM4SD in a scenario situation. A successful Practitioner candidate should, with suitable direction, be able to start applying the method to a real project but may not be sufficiently skilled to do this appropriately for all situations. Their individual project management expertise, complexity of the project and the support provided for the use of PM4SD in their work environment will all be factors that impact what the Practitioner can achieve.

Exam Format