Tour Guide Skills for Ecotourism
Tour Guide Skills for Ecotourism
Develop your ability to organise and conduct ecotourism services including tours and activities.
Learn to conduct guided tours, overnight walks and treks, or self guided interpretive walks. Ecotourism is an industry that has developed hugely in recent years. It reflects both of the aims of modern conservation: management of resources and protection of the environment. Modern ecotourism strives to be sustainable, so that the activities that are taking place can continue to do so. This course will introduce you to aspects of ecotourism such as guiding environmental awareness, planning tours,displays and interpretive aids, plant and animal interpretation.
There are 10 lessons in this course:
- Ecotourism Basics
- Definition of ecotourism
- Negative ecotourism
- Ecotourist profile
- Administrative concerns
- Safety
- Interpretive Services in Ecotourism
- Interpretation as a key element of ecotourism
- Interpretation techniques
- Sign design
- Ecology and Conservation
- Definition of ecology
- Ecosystem function
- The web of life
- Habitat and niche
- Humans in the environment
- Plant and Animal Classification and Identification
- Classification of organisms
- Basic taxonomy
- Using keys for identification
- Other methods of identification
- Geology/Geomorphology
- Types of rocks
- Types of minerals
- Soils
- Soil formation
- Soil classification
- Interpreting Aquatic Environments
- Marine environments
- Freshwater environments
- Fish
- Shells
- Crustaceans
- Interpreting Land Environments
- Introduction to interpreting land environments
- Relevance of interpreting land environments
- Planning an Ecotour
- Destination
- Transportation
- Accommodation
- Ecotour Displays
- Design concepts
- Zoo design techniques
- Leading an Ecotour
- Advertising
- Group preparation
- Planning the tour
- Group surveys for feedback
For more information on this course, please request your free course information pack.