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Comment by Ed Wetschler on April 25, 2012 at 6:05pm

One of our fellow Tripatini members, a Kenyan eco camp, is looking for a few good tips on how to boost occupancy. We'd be grateful if you could help. Please reply to  this link for our Ask A Travel Pro forum.  Thanks!

Comment by Stefanie Payne on March 22, 2012 at 3:16pm

Hello fellow explorers! Dropping by to announce our new project, Write/Peace, has just been accepted by Kickstarter, an online crowdfunding site for creative projects.

An overview of the project >> A specially selected team of writers will work with journalists from around the world to explore and write about important trends in tourism and how these trends impact social and economic lives both locally and globally. Together, they will create a series of long-form, narrative stories that will be published over the course of one year. The aim of these stories is to promote a greater understanding of how the six-trillion-dollar Travel and Tourism industry impacts local societies and the global economy.

Any and all support is greatly appreciated. If you like what you are reading here and want to learn more, please take a moment to review our Kickstarter project page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1501131842/write-peace

And of course, join us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/WritePeace/info

Thank you, happy travels!!

Feedback is always welcome, feel free to PM me directly.

Stefanie

Comment by Ed Wetschler on March 12, 2012 at 9:52pm

A Tripatini member is asking about strategies for identifying likeminded tour operators with which to cooperate on marketing. If you have any thoughts on the subject, kindly reply at this link to our Ask A Travel Expert forum. Thanks!

Comment by Darryl Musick on February 29, 2012 at 10:14am

For those of you who haven't seen it, we're running the award winning Gina Sandoval documentary "Timmy Wheels" at The World on Wheels today. It's a short doc featuring my sometime partner at the blog, and the inspiration for it, my son Tim. Bring some popcorn and enjoy the show (by the way, he's still available for your voiceover needs): http://tinyurl.com/y5p4l34

Comment by Corne Schalkwyk on February 23, 2012 at 1:29am

Thanks Barbara and Tolene

Tolene the Van der Merwe sounds very Afrikaans.  You’re not a ex pat by chance? We had a very successful fund raising event last, largely due to the support of the Safari Industry role players. We can’t thank them enough for opening their hearts and pockets to fund ongoing projects to save Rhinos.

Wilderness also contributed a large sum of money in conjunction with EcoTraining to support the ear notching project in the northern part of Kruger as well as the DNA project. Hopefully the DNA samples will help Identify poachers at the point of sale (it’s difficult to link the killing to the buyers at this stage, but we are getting there)

Glad to hear that so many people are doing good things to help.

 

Comment by Barbara Silkstone on February 22, 2012 at 9:31am

This is so amazing to see. Someday I hope to visit in person. Lovely!

Comment by Corne Schalkwyk on February 22, 2012 at 8:54am

Rhino conservation and tourism meet:

EcoTraining will be offering its first Rhino conservation course in April of 2012. In 2011 EcoTraining included a section on Rhino conservation as part of its conservation and research course. But this year have decided to dedicate a separate course to Rhino Conservation.

Rhino conservation isn’t only very topical at the moment but people want to be informed and they need to have a deeper understanding of Rhino to start making a change.

The aim of the course is twofold. First, to provide an in-depth education suitable for rangers, tourists, and academics on the two African rhinos and the conservation thereof. Second, to establish and teach non-invasive methods for monitoring rhino populations.

The main method of instruction would be hands on participation in a rhino monitoring project. This would be supplemented by lectures. The goal of the monitoring project would be to establish identikits for all rhinos within a given research area. This would be accomplished by a variety of methods depending on the area, including:

• camera traps, tracking/trailing, and plaster casts of tracks would be used to identify individual rhinos by their tracks.
• Trailing on foot or by vehicle when possible to get photos of rhinos for identification purposes.
• Trailing on foot to establish rhino movement patterns, habitat selection, water sources, and territories.
• Observing on foot or by vehicle to study behaviour and habitat/food selection.
• Dung analysis to study food selection.

Topics to be covered during the course would include:

1. rhinos of the world
2. rhino biology
3. evolution of Rhinocerotidae and subtaxa
4. rhino behaviour (black and white rhinos)
5. poaching and anti-poaching
6. conservation issues
7. conservation research and research methods
8. tracking and trailing
9. rhino habitats & ecosystems

 

Rhinos would have a heavy emphasis, but other aspects of savannah ecosystems would also be explored.

On the first two activities, camera traps would be strategically deployed. Each day, thereafter, the group would go out in search of rhino tracks and/or rhinos. Each member of the group would have a specific duty, and the following duties would be rotated throughout the course.

• tracking/trailing (2 people)
• note taking
• GPS/mapping
• track casting and sample collecting
• video
• photographer
• observers or additional photographers

 

Course Dates in Kruger National park  (Makuleke Concession) 1 -7 April at R5700 per person (accommodation and meals included)

Media can contact Corne at marketing@ecotraining.co.za for more information

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Comment by John Lamkin on February 13, 2012 at 9:58pm

Thanks Julie!

Comment by Julie on February 13, 2012 at 1:03pm

Hi John, we worked with a resort in Belize a year ago. At that time, the PR agency for the Belize Tourism Board was BVK. The contact was Patty Tazalla in the Milwaukee office.

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