ECOTOURISM - Sustainable
Tourism?
Rural Tourism
Village Tourism
Nature Tourism
Cultural Tourism
Local products, materials and labour
HOW?
The Finnish Educational System
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University
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Polytechnic
4 years
Upper Secondary
School
Vocational School
Comprehensive
School
Age 6/7 - 16
3 – 4 years
Ministry of Education
Finnish National Board of Education
Rovaniemi Municipal Federation of
Education
Lapland Vocational College
Nature and Environment
ational College
Environment
6400 Rovaniemi
Education and Environment
Vocational Qualifications in Finland
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Basic Vocational Level (2 – 3 years)
Study Programme in
* Agriculture
Rural Entrepreneur
* Landscape Industries
Gardener
* Forestry
Forest Machine Operator
Forest Ecosystem Worker
Education and Environment
Vocational Qualifications in Finland
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Basic Vocational Level ( 2 – 3 years )
Study Programme in
* Environmental Operative
* Entrepreneur in Naturebased Services
* Reindeer Farming
Entrepreneur
Education and Environment
Vocational Qualifications in Finland
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Further Qualifications ( 1 year)
in
* Nature-based
Production
* Hiking and Nature
Guide Services
* Rural Tourism
Education and Environment
Vocational Qualifications in Finland
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Specialist Qualifications (1 year)
in
* Rural Development
* Game Management
for * Nature Surveyors
in Nature-based Produktion!!
Study Programme in
Entrepreneur in Nature-based Services
Nature Guiding and Tourism 20 study weeks
Guiding in foreign language
Recreation services
Culture and local knowlegde
Wilderness tours
Learning by doing 8 study weeks with
enterpreneurs
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Entrepreneur in Naturebased Services
Wilderness quiding 10 study weeks
Hiking in winter
Fishing in winter
Canoen
Climping
Orienteering
Group dynamics
Entrepreneur in Naturebased Services
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Special skills in nature guiding
10 study weeks
nature trails, guiding for special
groups (children, the disabled )
Entrepreneur in Naturebased Services
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Taking care of cultural
environments 10 study weeks
Environment programmes
Traditional landscapes
Wilderness Guide ( 10 months )
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Nature- and Wilderness Guide`s
Professional Examination
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Wilderness skills, security, nature and
tourism, entrepreneurship, marketing
skills, customer service, knowledge of
culture and evironment, language
studies, a special topic
Skill tests
Evaluation
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Selfevaluation
Enterpreneurs are evaluators
Professional skills and how you
work = a new method to
evaluate
National criterions and
standards
Evaluation with
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Commercial and industrial life
Enterpreneurship
Representative of education
And what else?
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Snow mobile guide
Mountain guide
Experience guide
Swamp guide
Boat guide
Extreme conditions
Guiding with animals, horses, dogs,
birds…
Nature, Environment and Inhabitants
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Sustainability of ecotourism from
the environmental, economic and
socio-cultural points of view
Empowerment of local communities
and people in the ecotourism
development process, in
management and monitoring of
ecotourism activities, and in the
sharing of benefits resulting from it.
The Future is
Birght
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