Ecotourism and Adventure Activities Courses

Increase your capacity in the adventure tourism industry

Adventure tourism is a fast growing and exciting industry.This course enables you to develop your knowledge and capacity to plan and manage the provision of adventure tourism. The Adventure tourism industry involves both provision of adventurous activities, and support services (eg. accommodation, food and transport) in the locations where those activities are to be found. Adventure activities may be established in either natural or man made environments, and each brings different challenges to the way services and facilities are provided.

Study this course and learn more about the customer, management, locations and facilities, risk management, insurance, ethics, sustainability, environmental impacts and more.

Increase your survival and bushcraft skills before it's too late

This essential course develops skills in bushcraft, an understanding of wilderness activities and an ability to manage the needs of a group of people while in a wilderness area.

This course will improve your ability to survival in an isolated area and is a must do for tour guides, scout leaders, orienteers, ecotour guides and business operators or those interested in wilderness exploration. The brain is considered to be the best survival tool there is, so don't be caught short, inform yourself now.

Topics covered include: wilderness areas, emergency situations, camping, navigation, natural resources, equipment, protection from the elements and many activities.

Learn how to establish and operate an ecotourism business

has become a boom industry in recent times and a major employer of recreationists in the country. Ecotourism has emerged out of a growing interest in outdoor adventure activities - from mountaineering to low impact bushwalking.

Establishing such an enterprise requires an understanding of a wide range of issues including: legal considerations, safety, accommodation, the tour desk as a first point of contact, destinations, and management.

This course develops your ability to establish and operate an ecotourism enterprise.

Learn to be an ecotourism tour guide

This course develops your ability to organise and conduct ecotourism services including tours and activities. The rang of activities may include

• guided tours
• overnight walks
• treks
• self guided interpretive walks.

Ecotourism is the combination of Ecology and Tourism. Ecotourism is an industry that has developed hugely in recent years. It reflects both of the aims of modern conservation: husbandry 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. T

his course will introduce you to some of the aspects of ecotourism guiding including

• environmental awareness
• planning tours
• displays
• interpretive aids
• plant and animal interpretation.

Build your knowledge and understanding of Marine Biology

If you are looking to work in the ecotourism industry, this course will help build your knowledge and understanding of marine biology.

This is an introductory level course and will help you to be able to explain factors affecting marine environments and identify and understand a wide range of marine organisms. You will be introduced to a wide range of factors related to marine studies which include

• marine ecology systems
• reef formation and function
• marine organisms such as fish (including bony and cartilaginous)
• cephalopods
• marine mammals
• marine ecosystems
• how human activity impacts on these.

Discover the amazing world of birds

Learn with us what is a bird, how they evolved, what adaptations they developed to be able to colonize air, land and water so successfully!

This course is designed for people working or wishing to work with birds and animals, life scientists and environmental researchers and consultants, amateur bird watchers, or anyone working with birds.

Learn to identify and understand the habits of different birds, from water birds and parrots, to town birds and birds of prey.

• Did you know that a Pelican's wingspan can reach 3.3 meters?
• Did you know that the Arctic Tern flies 8,000 km from the Arctic to Antarctic, and back every year?

This course will increase your knowledge and understanding of birds, the course covers classification, anatomy, characteristics of the different bird groups including waders, birds of prey, passeriformes, seabirds, common birds and more.