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ECOTOURISM - Sustainable Tourism?. Rural Tourism Village Tourism Nature Tourism Cultural Tourism Local products, materials and labour HOW?. University Upper Secondary School Comprehensive School. Polytechnic 4 years Vocational School 3 – 4 years Age 6/7 - 16.
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ECOTOURISM - Sustainable Tourism? Rural Tourism Village Tourism Nature Tourism Cultural Tourism Local products, materials and labour HOW?
University Upper Secondary School Comprehensive School Polytechnic 4 years Vocational School 3 – 4 years Age 6/7 - 16 The Finnish Educational System
Ministry of Education Finnish National Board of Education Rovaniemi Municipal Federation of Education Lapland Vocational College Nature and Environment
Lapland Vocational College Nature and Environment www.lao.fi Metsäruusuntie 18 96400 Rovaniemi Finland
Education and EnvironmentVocational Qualifications in Finland • Basic Vocational Level (2 – 3 years) Study Programme in * Agriculture Rural Entrepreneur * Landscape Industries Gardener * Forestry Forest Machine Operator Forest Ecosystem Worker
Education and EnvironmentVocational Qualifications in Finland • Basic Vocational Level ( 2 – 3 years ) Study Programme in * Environmental Operative * Entrepreneur in Nature- based Services * Reindeer Farming Entrepreneur
Education and EnvironmentVocational Qualifications in Finland • Further Qualifications ( 1 year) in * Nature-based Production * Hiking and Nature Guide Services * Rural Tourism
Education and EnvironmentVocational Qualifications in Finland • 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
Entrepreneur in Nature- based Services Wilderness quiding 10 study weeks Hiking in winter Fishing in winter Canoen Climping Orienteering Group dynamics
Entrepreneur in Nature- based Services • Special skills in nature guiding 10 study weeks nature trails, guiding for special groups (children, the disabled )
Entrepreneur in Nature- based Services • Taking care of cultural environments 10 study weeks Environment programmes Traditional landscapes
Wilderness Guide ( 10 months ) • Nature- and Wilderness Guide`s Professional Examination • Wilderness skills, security, nature and tourism, entrepreneurship, marketing skills, customer service, knowledge of culture and evironment, language studies, a special topic • Skill tests
Evaluation • Selfevaluation • Enterpreneurs are evaluators • Professional skills and how you work = a new method to evaluate • National criterions and standards
Evaluation with • Commercial and industrial life • Enterpreneurship • Representative of education
And what else? • Snow mobile guide • Mountain guide • Experience guide • Swamp guide • Boat guide • Extreme conditions • Guiding with animals, horses, dogs, birds…
Nature, Environment and Inhabitants • 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.
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