Capacity Improvement: Local Community Forest Guides

Improving Capacities of Local Community Forest Guides.

Mt Kenya Conservancy.

October 2013

1 Month

Kenya Forest Service

Training on Principles of Community Guiding, Interpretation in Tourism Guiding, Customer Care, Handling Difficult Clients and First Aid.

This training equipped 45 community forest guides with professional guiding skills which in turn improved tourists’ experience and increased tourist revenue. The training fast tracked the appreciation of forest guiding as a profession. The focus was on instituting turn–around approaches on sustainable forest guiding with the aim of improving professionalism and guiding etiquettes.