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The Professional Guide's Handbook

How to Lead Adventure Travel Trips and Expeditions

Colby Brokvist

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English
Fulcrum Publishing
23 August 2022
Professional guides have a lot of skills to learn and perfect to become successful. In the first book of its kind, The Professional Guide's Handbook covers everything contemporary guides need to know to become successful in their profession. Professional Guide and educator Colby Brokvist covers skills for success, ethical standards, sustainability issues, leadership, and how to utilize all these skills when on the job.

The Professional Guide's Handbook offers insight, wisdom, and real-life anecdotes from the author's own worldwide adventures as an expedition leader. Readers will find a thorough and thoughtful text that looks at everything from leadership skills to the importance of stewardship practices in the outdoor industry. They will develop a better understanding of travelers and their expectations to group management frameworks. It will leave readers empowered, enlightened, and ready to lead their next trip with renewed confidence. Colby Brokvist has more than 20 years of experience in the travel and expedition industry and is a technically competent and accomplished outdoorist.
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Imprint:   Fulcrum Publishing
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   548g
ISBN:   9781682753248
ISBN 10:   1682753247
Pages:   323
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Colby Brokvist is a professional guide who leads worldwide expeditions for some of the most acclaimed companies in adventure travel. He was inspired to pursue guiding as a career during a through-hike of the Appalachian Trail in the summer of 2000. Since then, he has led hundreds of adventure travel departures, ranging from backpacking and trekking adventures to mountaineering and rock-climbing trips, sea kayaking and sailing voyages, and wildlife safaris. His expeditions have taken him to destinations as far-flung as Greenland, Antarctica, Africa, and Patagonia, as well as across the United States and Canada. In addition to fieldwork, Colby assumes a variety of managerial, operational, and consulting roles within the adventure travel sphere. His work centers on guide training, guide team management, and itinerary development. He sits on the board of directors for the Polar Tourism Guides Association and is a certified Senior Polar Guide through the same organization. He calls Boulder, Colorado, home.

Reviews for The Professional Guide's Handbook: How to Lead Adventure Travel Trips and Expeditions

The Professional Guide's Handbook offers insight, wisdom, and real-life anecdotes from the Colby's own worldwide adventures as an expedition leader...Exceptionally well written, organized and presented. --James Cox, Midwest Review of Books The Professional Guide's Handbook is required reading for all adventure travel guides. Colby Brokvist not only shares the vital and complicated skills required to guide adventure travelers to the most remote corners of the planet, but he also captures the essence of guiding as a profession and the burning passions required to succeed at the highest level. If you want to be a great guide, read this book and pay attention. --Ben Bressler, Founder & President of Natural Habitat Adventures If you believe that adventure tourism can and must be a force of good in the world, then The Professional Guide's Handbook is a must read. --Matt Kareus, Executive Director, International Galapagos Tour Operators Association The Professional Guide's Handbook manages to be a theoretical book with an extremely concrete and hands-on usage. It is encouraging, reaching a broad spectrum of guides with various experiences. It allows you to self-reflect and learn, motivating you to be your best guide. --Pernille Soegaard, Co-Founder and Instructor, Expedition Guide Academy


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