Activity Description

HOW DO I GET QUALIFIED
1) Start by signing up and choose a start date – after signing up we will send you and invoice and application form to be completed.
2) Complete an online training course with the guidance of your Best Day Ever Mentor.
3) Complete your 20 days Work Experience and log it in your logbook – you will be assigned activities / tours to shadow daily.
4) Full Time Course – Courses are run over 25 days
Part Time Courses – You have 120 days to complete the online learning section and Work Experience
5) Complete the course with a one-day coaching session to make sure you are ready for assessment.
6) Assessment – End your course off by being assessed by an assessor.

TRAINING & ASSESSMENT FOR PROFESSIONALS
A Skills program for the Professional Adventure Guide
This CATHSSETA accredited program can be used for all adventure-based activities, Bungee Jumping, Kite Boarding, Surfing, 4×4 Trails, Canopy Trails, Mountain Biking, etc. including Paddling and Mountaineering according to the rules of combination to allow a professional guide to register with the National Department of Tourism (NDT) to operate legally.
Myganex PTY Ltd Trading as Adventure
Qualifications Network
www.adventure-qualifications.com

What is an Adventure Guide?
Adventure guides are any persons who provide adventure-based experiences
for paying clients. The basic requirement to be a legal guide is you must hold a
SAQA registered National Qualification as stipulated by the National Department
of Tourism, (NDT) which is managed and certified by the Tourism sector education training authority (CATHSSETA).
Once you hold the appropriate qualification, you can
then register as a legal guide with the NDT.

What Are The ‘Stipulated Qualifications’?
Although there are various levels and types of qualifications, there is only one program that is ‘generic’ for adventure guides and allows a multiple of activity disciplines to be guided. This is the Generic Adventure Site Guide (GASG).

What does the Generic Site Guide mean?
Although termed a “site” guide, the guide is not restricted to a geographical site as the word ‘site’ applies to his or her adventure specialty that can be practiced in any place in the Republic. The word “generic” applies to the set of adventure tourism skills, knowledge and abilities that apply in all adventure guiding and does not restrict it to one activity. However, the guide is assessed ‘in context’ of the activity they wish to offer.

The guide must be assessed by an accredited assessment provider under the specific adventure skills program (TG/ADVSITEGD/4/0080) registered with the South African
Qualifications Authority (SAQA) by CATHSSETA which encompasses
a range of adventure unit standards to be rated an adventure tourist
guide. While this may sound complicated it is the best way to
professionalise the guide with the skills, knowledge and abilities that
guides do need. This skills programme covers:
• 335803 – Research and design a guided experience at a prominent tourism site
• 335801 – Conduct a tourist guiding activity
• 262320 – Manage and organise groups
• 262317 – Lead participants through an outdoor recreation and adventure activity
• 262305 – Plan and implement minimum environmental impact practices
• 262246 – Set up and operate a camping site
• 255914 – Minimise and manage safety and emergency incidents
• 246740 – Care for customers
• 335816 – Conduct a guided adventure experience

What Will I be Able to Guide when I Qualify?
This is up to you… Most people coming into the Adventure Guiding
industry will already have a passion for a specific activity or activities. It is very
unusual for someone who is not already taking part in adventure activities to
want to become a guide. Adventure activities require technical skill,
dedication and a lot of experience to do so safely.
So, you probably already know what activity you want to guide. It’s probably
something you do as a hobby already. Mountain Biking, Rock Climbing,
Paddling, Kayaking, Surfing, Abseiling etc. And now you feel you can make
a business of doing this for paying clients.
There is no limit to the specialisations of this course however the course must
be run “IN CONTEXT” to the specialisation or activity being undertaken.
In other words, if you wish to be assessed as a “Tree Top Canopy Guide” and as
a “Surfing” Guide, you will need to do two assessments. Each assessment only lasts as long as a normal activity session would last. However, depending on the specialisations you want, it may be possible to do only one training course. Speak to your trainer about this.
This is not a technical skills training program. We are not teaching you the technical skills of the activity. We recommend you attend specialist courses for this such as doing a course through recognised industry associations. However, our trainers and assessors are all very highly experience and qualified in several varied activities, so depending on what activity you want to guide, your trainer may be able to add this to the program as necessary. The cost of technical training is in addition to the cost of the GASG. Think of the GASG as the folder of skills which formalises and brings all the skills you need to be a guide together in one program.

What Happens During Assessment?
Assessments are great fun and you will learn a lot on the day as well as being assessed.
• You will be provided with a copy of the assessor’s checklist prior to the assessment. This allows you to see exactly what you need to do on the day.
• You will then run a guided activity session of the activity you want to be signed off for. Scootours, E-Biking, Cycling, Archery or Hiking. You must have a group of at least 4 simulated clients for this.
• During your assessment, the assessor may ask questions to clarify why you are doing certain things, and may even provide some coaching to improve your technique. Coaching will only occur after you have already demonstrated a skill satisfactorily, and the coaching is just to improve your techniques to best practice standard if appropriate.
• At the end of the activity session, your assessor will provide feedback to you on your performance and give you the opportunity to provide your own feedback on the process and assessors performance.
• The assessor will provide a result immediately, but this result is subject to the moderation process, and may be changed. You will be kept fully informed of this process.
• If there is anything you are not happy about during the assessment, you may appeal in writing, and your case will be heard by an appeals panel. This is very unusual though.
• After moderation, a temporary certificate will be issued, and a few months later an official CATHSSETA certificate will be issued. You can use your temporary certificate to register with the DNT as a guide in the meantime.

To Summarise:
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
• Care for customers
• Minimise and manage safety and emergency incidents
• Lead participants through an outdoor recreation and adventure activity
• Manage and organise groups
• Conduct a tourist guiding activity
• Conduct a guided adventure experience
Assessment

Enrolment:
a) Must be at least 16 years of age (18 for assessment)
b) Speak and understand the English language at NQF level 3 (unless accompanied by a skilled translator, or as accepted by your Trainer)
c) Fit and healthy for adventure-based activities

Exclusions: No one with any impairment that would be dangerous in the applicable activity context may undertake this training. E.g. Vertigo, Uncontrolled epilepsy, Drug or alcohol dependence etc.
Location: Stellenbosch (Scootours & Vinebikes)

Qualification: After Successful Assessment: Nationally Recognised Statement of Attainment titled…
TG/ADVSITEGD/4/0080 – Adventure Site Guide – “Cycling, Scootours, Archery, Hiking”

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