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Negril Chamber of Commerce Community Guide Training Programme
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Community Guide Training Itinerary

Day 1 - Monday, September 8, 2003.
@ The Negril Gardens Beach Resort

9:00 - 9:15 Opening Prayer - Welcome and Introductions - [Click on Link for Photo - 32KB]
9:15 - 9:45 Opening Remarks and Overview of Community Tourism & Tour Guiding Skills Programme (including Field Trips) - [Click on Link for Photo - 47KB]
9:30 - 10:00

Jean Jackson - Negril Chamber of Commerce - [Click on Link for Photo - 36KB]

10:00 - 10:15 Video on Jamaica of Negril
10:15 - 10:45 Break - (by the Negril Gardens Beach Resort) - [Click on Link for Photo - 41KB]
10:45 - 11:15 Fitz Davis - NEPT - [Click on Link for Photo - 33KB]
11:15 - 11:30 Questions/Answers
11:30 - 12:00 Mauricia Lewis - Social Development Commission - [Click on Link for Photo - 41KB]
12:00 - 12:15 Questions/Answers
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch (Negril Gardens Beach Resort) - [Click on Link for Photo - 55KB]
1:15 - 1:45 Wayne Cummings - JHTA - [Click on Link for Photo - 39KB]
1:45 - 2:00 Discussion
2:00 - 2:30 Dian Brown-Holgate (Royal Palm Reserve) - [Click on Link for Photo - 34KB]
2:30 - 2:45 Questions/Answers
2:45 - 4:00 Tour of the Royal Palm Reserve - [Click on Link for Photo - 64KB]

Day 2 - Tuesday, September 9, 2003.
Meet @ the Burger King Parking Lot

6:30 Depart for Mandeville/Treasure Beach Tour
9:00 Key Characteristics of an Effective Tour Guide - The Astra Country Inn - [Click on Link for Photo - 48KB]
10:30 - 12:30

Marvelous Mandeville Tour including
- Private Home Welcome
- [Click on Link for Photo - 66KB]
- SWA Craft Centre
- [Click on Link for Photo - 51KB]
- Private Home Garden Tour

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch at the Astra Country Inn - Home of Countrystyle - [Click on Link for Photo - 60KB]
2:00

Depart for Treasure Beach via Lover's Leap - [Click on Link for Photo - 54KB]
- Lover's Leap
- [Click on Link for Photo - 59KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 57KB]
- Visit Jakes Village
- 4 M's Cottage

4:00 Return to Negril
4:15 - 5:00 Discussion of Mandeville/Treasure Beach Tour on bus - [Note - Returned to Negril at 8:30 PM]
HOMEWORK: Project - My Community and Myself - to be handed in on the final day.

Day 3 - Wednesday, September 10, 2003.
Meet @ the Burger King Parking Lot

7:30 Prayers
7:45 Depart for Lucea
8:30

Tour of Lucea (Courthouse, fire proof, museum, Rusea's)
- Information on Lucea/presentation form a community leader
- Define the visitor experience

10:00 Depart for Westmoreland Study Tour
- Savanna-La-Mar (Old Fort, Hendon House, Mannings)
- Darliston (Clifton's Boys Home, Anglican Church)
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch @ Sweet Spice in Savanna-La-Mar
2:30 - 4:00 Roaring River Falls

Day 4 - Thursday, September 11, 2003.
@ The Negril Gardens Beach Resort

9:00 Prayers
9:15 Debriefing of all tours - lessons learned - [Click on Link for Photo - 48KB]
9:45

Power Point Presentation on Community Tourism the way forward
Questions and Answers
- [Click on Link for Photo - 41KB]

10:30 Break (by the Negril Gardens Beach Resort)
10:45 Body Language and Communication Skills - [Click on Link for Photo - 40KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 40KB]
11:00 - 12:30 Key Characteristics of an Effective Tour Guide
- Values for Tour Guides
- Principles in the development of Ethics for Tour Guides
- The importance of Personality, Personal Hygiene
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (by the Negril Gardens Beach Resort) - [Click on Link for Photo - 54KB]
1:30 - 3:00 Role Playing - [Click on Link for Photo - 44KB]

Day 5 - Friday, September 12, 2003.
@ The Negril Gardens Beach Resort

9:00 Prayer
9:15 - 10:30 Cultural difference between visitors and Jamaicans
The Heritage of Jamaica
10:30 Break (by the Negril Gardens Beach Resort)
10:45 - 11:15 Fitz Davis - NEPT
11:00 - 12:30 Special Interest Marketing
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Negril Gardens Beach Resort) - [Click on Link for Photo - 57KB]
1:30 - 3:00 Developing a Community Village Tour
3:00 - 4:00 Role Playing - Touring a Village - [Click on Link for Photo - 44KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 38KB]

Day 6 - Monday, September 15, 2003.
Meet @ the Burger King Parking Lot

8:00 - 8:30 Opening Prayer & Overview of South Coast Field Trip
8:30 Depart for South Coast Study Tour - Country Tourism investors
- Bluefields People's Communities Association - Tour of Facilities and Presentation
- [Click on Link for Photo - 60KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 57KB]
9:30

Meet Astil Gage & Keith Wedderburn at Bluefields People's Communities Association (BPCA) Representatives of Sustainable Communities Association (SCF) Westmoreland Chapter - [Click on Link for Photo - 57KB]

9:45 - 10:45 Presentation of BPCA and Tour of Facilities - [Click on Link for Photo - 79KB]
10:45 Depart for Beeston Spring Village with Astil Gage & Headley Brooks - [Click on Link for Photo - 48KB]
11:15 Community Welcome at the Beeston Spring Library with community entertainment featuring the Mighty Beestons Mento Band and afterwards tour of Beeston Spring including: Library, Moravian Church, and Spring - [Click on Link for Photo - 75KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 70KB]
12:15 Depart from Beeston Spring to Billy Kerr's Grassroots Stop, Middle Quarters for lunch - [Click on Link for Photo - 69KB]
1:00 - 2:00 LUNCH - Meet Billy and family - case study for Community Tourism - [Click on Link for Photo - 59KB]
2:05 Depart Billy's to Black River for the South Coast Safari Tour
2:30 Safari Tour Black River - [Click on Link for Photo - 52KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 42KB]
4:00 Depart Safari Tour to Waterworks Nature Reserve
4:45 Visit Waterworks Nature Reserve - [Click on Link for Photo - 67KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 76KB]
5:30 Return to Negril - Assignment - make notes of tour and note your assessment of it for discussion - Discussion on the bus tour.

Day 7 - Tuesday, September 16, 2003.
@ The Negril Gardens Beach Resort

9:00 - 9:15 Prayer
9:15 Review - [Click on Link for Photo - 50KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 39KB]
9:30

Presentations of Myself and My Community

10:30 - 10:45 Break (by the Negril Gardens Beach Resort)
10:45 - 12:00 Test - [Click on Link for Photo - 54KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 48KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 43KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 46KB]
12:00 - 1:00 Evaluation and Wrap Up - [Click on Link for Photo - 54KB] - [Click on Link for Photo - 76KB]


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