Trip Planning
For each tour that Nature Trail decides to offer its tour guests, our Tour Director, Steve Ridd, has previously undertaken a comprehensive Tour Design Framework © .
This is a tour activity design methodology which Nature Trail has uniquely conceived from applied education, training and experience involving multiple analyses of each proposed tour offering we consider well before it is assessed as being of suitable quality before we decide it to be offered to our tour guests.
Nature Trail’s Tour Design ## Framework©:
- TD01 Tour Plan Cover, Task List, Tour Outline
- TD02 Recces + Practice Trips
- TD03 Walk Plan and Variations
- TD04 Transport Plan
- TD05 Tour Risk Mitigation
- TD06 Catering, Sites + Toilets
- TD07 Equipment Kits
- TD08 Briefings + Commentary
- TD09 Trip Pax Manifests
- TD10 Conditions Forecasts
- TD11 Specific Tour Guidance
- TD12 Tour Notice
- TD13 Trip Prep Checklist
- TD14 Trip Journals + Recordings
- TD15 Post Trip Chores
- TD16 Tour Budget
- TD17 Governance Debrief
- TD18 Tour Yarns
- TD19 Tour Brochure
- TD20 Applied Research
We shall elaborate on each of these twenty tour design tasks on this webpage in due course.
We point out that this tour design framework, is necessarily and critically underpinned by Trip Planning methodology supported by additional research, route scouting, full route reconnoitres, and then at least two practice trips in a group scenario (4-6 pax) comprising Nature Trail’s Alumni for feedback – constructive or otherwise.
In our opinion and from subsequent tour leading experience, our tour methodology since academically designed and refined over almost a decade, frankly morphs the lay Outdoor Recreation course we did by NSW TAFE (Wentworth Falls) that we completed previously during our qualifications training.
From the outset, Nature Trail’s Tour Director set out to run a new tour operation, but not to be an employee of an existing tour operation, which was what the two TAFE courses were simplistically about.
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