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Adventure Tourism
Your outdoor classroom will be in some of the world’s most spectacular settings! Today’s adventure tourism professionals lead exhilarating experiences at home and around the world. To train these ambassadors of the great outdoors, BC’s provincial adventure and outdoor recreation programs offer a challenging mix of theory and field-based skills courses, all developed to high industry standards.
Theory topics include Risk Management, Environmental Stewardship, Introduction to Adventure Tourism (including business fundamentals), Foundations of Leadership and Guiding, and Introduction to Outdoor Skills. Field-based topics range from Kayak skills, to Avalanche awareness, to Climbing, to Scuba Diving, to Telemark Skiing. Each program offers a mandatory extensive Wilderness First Aid course.
Click here to learn more about the BC Provincial Adventure Tourism Certificate Program's Standardized Core Curriculum.
The following BC colleges and universities offer the provincial core adventure tourism certificate program. The three marked* also offer programs at the diploma level:
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Capilano University* | |
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College of New Caledonia | |
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College of the Rockies* | |
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North Island College* |
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Thompson Rivers University* | |
Graduate Profile:
Justin Thompson, Adventure Guide Certificate.
Occupation: Helicopter Ski Guide.
"Attending the Adventure Guide program in Kamloops was the best of both worlds; I was able to pursue my passion to be a ski guide while getting a formal education based on the industry I was about to become part of. The technical training that the program offers is very helpful and I have a lot to offer to the pool of knowledge in the guiding department at a major helicopter skiing company."