Training Options

As part of TOFTigers commitment to support the integration of wildlife conservation with building sustainable tourism, ensuring destination management and land use planning and enhanced visitor experiences and guiding, so we have committed over the last fifteen years to a host of training programmes.

TOFTigers runs a variety of training courses and workshops for both private, non-government and government sectors involved in lodge management, wildlife guiding, nature destination sustainability and sustainable tourism planning and provision in both protected and non-protected areas.

They can be sponsored by the Private Sector, funded directly by TOFTigers, sponsored by travel businesses or as part of a Government supported training programme.

These have included for example:

Park Guide Training: For Example : Over 40 of the best of Madhya Pradesh’s park guides, whose job is to show visitors around parks including Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Pench have been given up to two month’s intensive training on field guiding, visitor interpretation and nature education, through IIFM in Bhopal.
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Online Sustainable Travel Awareness training for Business enterprises : With the Covid 19 crisis TOFTigers have been running a number of ‘Driving Sustainable Travel’ training tutorials, to help
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providers during the crisis prepare for post crisis travel world, with the focus very much on being better prepared and focused on sustainability in both their own operations and through the travel programmes they offer to clients. Over 200 DMC members and their staff have been through the programme since April 2020, and the training continues. Committed participants can earn the TOFTigers Sustainable Travel awareness certificate. For details of next training click here .
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Park Drivers: For Example: Over 600 of Madhya Pradesh’s drivers, who drive visitors and VIP’s in all of Madhya Pradesh’s best known parks,
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have been given an intensive two day training course in 4×4 driving, interpretation and visitor interaction over the last couple of years.

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Field Directors and Tourism authorities: For Example. An intensive three day workshop, attended by all the Field staff of 6 of Maharashtra Tiger reserves,

together with 20 staff of the Maharashtra Tourism Board where trained in recognising and implementing sustainable tourism, to pass the Global Sustainable Tourism Council’s Sustainable Tourism Awareness course.

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Travel Industry training and company staff workshops:

For the Lodge Community. TOFTigers runs a host of Lodging workshops to highlight and encourage Wilderness Lodging Best Practice. For example 25 of Corbett’s best known lodges and resorts participated in a ‘Best Practice’ workshop over a whole day, hosted by a lodge that is an Outstanding PUG certified lodge.

workshop over a whole day, hosted by a lodge that is an Outstanding PUG certified lodge.

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For the Indian Travel Community. TOFTigers runs a host of half day Training programmes to the DMC community, informing their management and staff on Best Practice in Travel and Tourism, and their role within it, conducted by our Management team.

For the International Tour Operator Community

Ongoing workshops, presentation and networking events help educate the travel and tourism industry in the art of sustainability and the increasing needs to work towards sustainability in an ever demanding and increasingly legislated industry.

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Our Chairman at ATTA Summit, Ireland 2017.

Requests for training, training courses, sustainability based workshops for the industry and for Governments continue to be run as needed, planned or requested.

As part of our commitment to educating the Travel Community and visitors with regards to nature travel and responsible tourism, our Founder and Training Staff are available for specific lectures, presentations and workshops.

Please contact us for further details.

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