Ecotourism Tour Guide

Overview

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 Ecotourism Tour Guide course from Warnborough College will introduce you to aspects of ecotourism such as guiding environmental awareness, planning tours,displays and interpretive aids, plant and animal interpretation.

Here are just some of the things you may be doing:

• With each assignment you will be required to prepare identification sheets, containing a preserved specimen, a photograph or a drawing; together with a description of the species/type of organism.

• This collection is designed to be the embryo of a resource which you may use as an ongoing aid when designing and conducting interpretive activities.

• You will research the legal and administrative background required to set up an ecotourism venture in your area. You will also look at the marketing and advertising possibilities for this venture.

• Visit a number of interpretive ecotourism facilities.

• Prepare an interpretive activities sheet for an ecotourism group.

• Visit a natural area and classify organisms sighted in a set time period.

• Identify points of interest in a natural area for an ecotourism group.

• Research the lifecycles of a number of plants and animals.

• Design a range of ecotours for ecotourists interested in various natural phenomena.

• Visit an aquatic environment and make observations on the organisms there and any pollution present.