All Guides: Ecotourism Test Guide FY23: Guiding

The Professional Guide's Handbook
In the first book of its kind, The Professional Guide's Handbook: How to Lead Adventure Travel Trips and Expeditions contains everything contemporary guides need to know about their profession, exploring what skills are necessary to be successful, including an examination of adventure travel and guest expectations, leadership strategies, trip planning and the guest experience, cultural and environmental considerations, and being a professional expedition guide. Examples of carefully explored topics include guest expectations, problem-solving, risk management, decision-making, emergencies and crises, planning and logistics, and more. From developing a better understanding of travelers and their expectations to tried-and-true group management frameworks, the book elevates the technically competent outdoor enthusiast to the level of industry professional.
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Call Number: G154.7 .B75 2022

Tourist Guiding Techniques
The Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority (PNGTPA) as the lead agency responsible for developing and promoting tourism in PNG has recognized the need to provide better and more professional advice to tourism industry members on how to develop tourism products and services. This Product Development Manual has been development by PNG Tourism Promotion Authority (PNGTPA) for Papua New Guineans who are already in the tourism business or potential tourism industry members.

Interpretation for the 21st Century by Larry Beck; Ted Cable
Call Number: SB481.I5 B4 1998
ISBN: 1571671331
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
nterpretation for the 21st Century-2nd edition is uplifting and inspiring as it enhances the reader's understanding of how to interpret our cultural and natural legacy. The 15 guiding principles in this book will assist anyone who works in parks, forests, wildlife refuges, zoos, musea, historic areas, nature centers and tourism sites to more effectively and joyously conduct their work.
Teaching Orienteering by Carol McNeill; Jean Cory-Wright; Tom Renfrew; British Orienteering Federation Staff
Call Number: GV200.4 .M45 1998
ISBN: 0880118040
Publication Date: 1997-12-09
Teaching Orienteering, Second Edition makes it easier than ever for busy teachers, leaders, and coaches to introduce orienteering skills and techniques to students of the sport. This new edition retains the highly visual, full-color format of the original version, but its content has been expanded and completely updated.
Vitamin N by Richard Louv
Call Number: BF353.5.N37 L694 2016
ISBN: 9781616205782
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
Vitamin N is a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive, and practical guidebook for the whole family and the wider community, including tips not only for parents eager to share nature with their kids but also for those seeking nature-smart schools, medical professionals, and even careers. It is a dose of pure inspiration, reminding us that looking up at the stars or taking a walk in the woods is as exhilarating as it is essential, at any age.
Wilderness Navigation by Bob Burns; Mike Burns
Call Number: GV200.4 .B87 1999
ISBN: 0898866294
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Proceed with confidence when heading off-road or off-trail with the second edition of Wilderness Navigation. Whether you are climbing a glacier, orienteering in the backcountry, or on an easy day hike, Mike and Bob Burns cover all the latest technology and time-tested methods to help you learn to navigate-from how to read a map to compasses and geomagnetism.
Staying Found by June Fleming
Call Number: GV200.4 .F55 2001
ISBN: 0898867851
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Within this handbook you'll find crucial information on:
* Reading Maps
* Determining true directions
* Following bearings, backbearings, and baselines
* Using nature as a guide
* Teaching kids to "stay found"
* Coping if you are really lost
Be Expert with Map and Compass by Bjorn Kjellstrom
Call Number: GV200.4 .K53 1976
ISBN: 0684142708
Publication Date: 1976-07-01
The guide includes everything the beginner needs to know about the increasingly popular sport of Orienteering: understanding map symbols; traveling by map alone, by compass alone, or by map and compass together; finding bearings; sketching maps; and traveling in the wilderness.

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"With Roy Jantzen and Laura Choo of the School of Tourism Management, Capilano University

How do wildlife-viewing guidelines differ from one place to the next? What can ecotourism companies do to be more climate responsible? What role do consumers play in this? Roy and Laura discuss these matters as well as share their insights about equitable engagement with local Indigenous communities. Also hear some stories about whales, sea-otters, and dippers!"

Explore parks with confidence after understanding these basic orienteering skills. Our Interpretive Rangers show how to use a compass to find your bearing (or direction of travel) and also how to locate your position by using a method called triangulation.