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Jul 09, 2011 News

Nearly two dozen tour guides from around Guyana are currently attending the Interpretive Guide Training Programme that ends on July 15. They have come from Georgetown in the north to Dadanawa in the South.
The course is being sponsored and organized by the Guyana Sustainable Tourism Initiative, a joint project of the United States Agency for International Development/ Guyana Trade and Investment Support (USAID/GTIS) Project and the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA).
The course is taking place at several locations in Guyana’s North Rupununi, including the Bina Hill Institute, Rock View Lodge, Atta Rainforest Lodge and Iwokrama Canopy Walkway, and Surama Village and Eco-Lodge.
To ensure that the training programme is a nationwide initiative, tourism lodges, community tourism projects and tourism organizations from around Guyana were invited to send one of their lead guides to participate. The guides that are receiving the training will then be responsible for sharing the knowledge and skills that they learn on the course with fellow staff at their home site.
A combination of local experts and an interpretive instructor from the United States are teaching the course. Guyanese instructors contributing to the program include professional tour guides Ron Allicock and Wally Prince; Sydney Allicock of Surama Village and Eco-Lodge; Teri O’Brien of Wilderness Explorers; Hugo Panti and Raquel Thomas-Caesar of the Iwokrama International Centre; and Jennifer Wishart of the Walter Roth Museum.
The lead instructor is Chuck Lennox, Principal of Cascade Interpretive Consulting LLC. Chuck brings 25 years of professional experience to the training programme and is an expert in developing quality interpretive and education programs, training programs, natural history and wildlife classes.
The training course has been designed to build upon and improve the guides’ existing knowledge and skills necessary for guiding interpretive programs and tours. Course topics include: interpretation and guiding skills; communication skills; risk management and safety; host and customer service training; group management principles; and naturalist skills.
Participants will also learn how to better understand, identify and interpret their culture and history, and the wildlife, birds, geology, plants and climate of a landscape.
The Guyana Sustainable Tourism Initiative (GSTI) is receiving support from Guyana Trade and Investment Support (GTIS), a joint project of the Government of Guyana and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

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