CED: Nature Tourism
Interpretive Guide Training
Description: Tourism trends data show the public wants more authentic experiences and wants to understand the place they are visiting. Communicating the story of your site or community and its wildlife, its people & history are vital to your tourism product. This training provides structure and techniques to create both planned presentations, in-person or written & mobile in-person tours. It also helps you train new employees. National Certification is available from the National Association for Interpretation.
Target Audience: Those people presenting to the public, i.e. professional guides, new employees, tour operators, agents, general staff and crew, front line employees not conducting programs but interacting with the public.
Length: 3 hrs to 32 hrs
Cost: Depends on length of program. Free to $355 per person. For example, 3-6 hour = Free, Certified courses are 16 hours for Non-Guide Staff or 32 hours for those wanting Certified Interpretive Guide status such as those conducting public programs.
Participants: Up to 20 for 3-6 hrs; minimum–8 and maximum-15 for other courses
Scheduling: As requested
Point of Contact:
Miles Phillips
Extension Specialist,
Nature Tourism
E-mail: mdphillips(at)ag.tamu.edu
Phone: 979-845-1023
Fax: 979-845-0871