Twelve short videos over four weeks, for city tourism officers who are expert in their own work and new to AI. The twelve videos are free to anyone, permanently, with no account. The founding cohort, which adds the homework, the clinic and the written comments, is free to TPO member cities for that one sponsored run. It is desk skill, not a certificate. Enrolment for the founding cohort is through the TPO Secretariat.
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12, in three a week over four weeks
Six to seven minutes each
One homework, one short reading, one optional clinic
20 to 45 minutes, on a task from your own desk
The twelve videos are free to anyone, permanently, with no account. The founding cohort layer is free to TPO member cities for this one sponsored run
City tourism officers in TPO member cities
25 places, up to two per member city
To be confirmed by the TPO Secretariat
Each one is practised on a real task from your own desk, not on an example from ours.
Promotion, partnerships, visitor services, events and communications. People who draft, forward and sign, and who already use a public AI tool at work or know a colleague who does. No technical background is assumed and none is taught.
This course does not compare AI products, does not hand out a prompt library, and does not assess anyone. If you want to be certified under the Standard, that is a separate assessment on a separate instrument. No course enters it.
Weeks open on a Monday and stay open. The clinic is optional, sixty minutes, on one fixed weekday, through the Secretariat. Homework minutes are the four figures the Secretariat holds.
| Week | Theme | Videos | Homework | Clinic | Reading |
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| 1 | Give. What AI already does at the tourism desk, and what to hand over. | 3 videos, about 21 minutes | 20 minutes. List three tasks on your desk you would be tempted to hand over, sort them into draft, help with and must not own, and rewrite one weak brief as a P.A.C.E. brief. | 60 minutes. What is on your desk that AI already touches. | The Three Rules card. |
| 2 | Specify. The same task, a different result. | 3 videos, about 20 minutes | 30 minutes. Write one real brief for one real task, run it with no confidential data, and mark five claims in the output that need checking. | 60 minutes. We fix briefs live. | The P.A.C.E. card and the five-row matrix. |
| 3 | Check. Verify before you forward, and see where the answers come from. | 3 videos, about 20 minutes | 30 minutes. Ask two engines what a traveller should do in your city next month, write down the three sources each answer draws on, and check one real event has a name, this year's dates, a venue and a page an engine can read. | 60 minutes. The source clinic. | The source ladder and the one-event test. |
| 4 | Own. Name the owner, and bring a clear decision back to the director. | 3 videos, about 20 minutes | 45 minutes. The one-page AI desk plan for your city, on the template. | 60 minutes. Desk plans read aloud. | The desk plan template and the ten-term glossary. |
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Week 1 · 01
Unofficial AI use is already a desk matter. The four trays, and the Three Rules.
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Week 1 · 02
Draft, help with, must not own. Nine city tasks sorted.
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Week 1 · 03
Your first P.A.C.E. brief, with the ground rules on top.
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Week 2 · 04
The paired demonstration. Same engine, only the brief changes.
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Week 2 · 05
Five recurring communication types, one matrix row each.
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Week 2 · 06
Three polished drafts, and five categories of error to mark in them.
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Week 3 · 07
The source ladder, and why the engine is not on it.
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Week 3 · 08
The outside sources behind what an engine says about your city.
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Week 3 · 09
A name, a date, a venue, an official page. The one-event test.
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Week 4 · 10
The desk handover, and three red lines for the office.
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Week 4 · 11
The opening morning, rebuilt through all four trays.
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Week 4 · 12
One clear decision, five minutes, one page.
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It records that you took part in the four weeks. It is not a certificate and not a qualification. Nothing in this course assesses or scores you or your city, and no employer receives a report on you.
One page for your city: the task, the owner, the check and the date. The instructor reads every desk plan and returns written comments inside a week. The plan stays yours and your city's.
Both are open downloads. No registration, no email, no account. They sit beside this page when the cohort opens.
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Weeks 1 to 4
Homework sheets: the four weekly tasks, with the minutes each one takes.
Week 4
AI desk plan template: the one-page form your comments are written on.
Founding Director, AIR APAC. Author of AIRS-J/1, the Standard for managerial judgment in AI-enabled work. Spoke on how AI sees your city at the 10th TPO Forum, Taichung, September 2026.
He records every video and runs every clinic in the founding cohort. From the second cohort a facilitator trained on this material takes the clinics.
The founding cohort is capped at 25 officers, up to two per member city. The Secretariat holds the roster, sends the weekly note and issues the clinic invitation.
City and organisation, your name, role and office email, your director's name, one task on your desk that an AI engine already touches or could, and your preferred clinic language: English, Korean or Vietnamese.
The Secretariat confirms your place and sends the week one note on the open date. The deadline and the open date are set by the Secretariat, and they are published when TPO confirms them.
About twenty minutes of video, twenty to forty-five minutes of homework, and one optional sixty-minute clinic.
Yes. The twelve videos are free to watch, permanently, with no account. The founding cohort, which adds the weekly homework, the clinic and the written comments on your desk plan, is free to TPO member cities for this one run: it is a 100 percent discount on a sponsored run, recorded as such. From the second cohort the cohort layer is sponsored.
Yes. Watch in order, one week at a time. The homework sheets and the desk plan template are open downloads once they are published with the cohort. Only the clinic and the written comments need a place in the cohort.
Any public AI tool your office already allows. The course never asks you to paste confidential or unpublished material into one. No tool is sold here and none is recommended.
English first. Korean and Vietnamese subtitles for the founding cohort if TPO funds local review and translation.
No. You receive a Record of Participation for taking part. Nothing here assesses or scores you or your city. Certification under AIRS-J/1 is a separate assessment on a separate instrument, and nothing from this course enters it.
Level 2 is a sponsored cohort for destination organisations: six weeks, ten modules, a weekly live call, four assessed assignments and a StepSim capstone. Its design exists, and the build starts after the founding cohort runs. What officers bring to these clinics is the evidence that shapes it.
Level 2, AI Fluency for Destination Organisations, is a sponsored cohort for destination organisations and their partners: six weeks, ten modules, a weekly live call, four assessed assignments and a StepSim capstone. It closes on its own assessed artefact, and it is the usual route to a sitting. It is not the AI Ready Leader, which is a separate executive cohort of eight to twelve organisations described under the flagship cohort on the programmes page. Read the Level 2 page for the enrolment route, which is an enquiry rather than a place held for you.
The route to AIRS-J/1 certification is a separate assessment on StepSim, the instrument named in the Standard. It is kept apart from every course by rule: nothing you write in a programme is seen by an assessor, no course awards it, and practice never awards it. The published route is at airapac.org/standard/certification.