Explore Minnesota is offering a workshop for people who would like to be bird guides or have already started and might want to learn how to increase their business. This is not a workshop on identifying birds, this is a workshop on organizing trips, customer service, and networking and promoting yourself.
Explore Minnesota Tourism in partnership with MOU, Audubon, Minnesota DNR non-game , and the Minnesota Bed & Breakfast Association announce The B&B&B Pilot Project! Here is how it works: A select group of Bed & Breakfasts ( B & Bs) in Minnesota will develop packages that will include guided birding trips for their guests. These packages will be advertised by the B & Bs and will be listed on Explore Minnesota Tourism?s web site. Guides that participate in this training will be matched with B & Bs in their area to provide birding trips for a fee to be retained by the guides. Two training sessions for the B & B owners and the guides will be offered in June of this year to help make this pilot project a success. Following the training sessions there will be a ?practice? field trip for the B & B owners where the guides will practice their guiding skills. Once the training is completed the B & Bs will be designated as ? Birder Friendly?, and the guides will be partnered with the B & Bs. Training for the guides will include: Explore Minnesota?s data base and why it is important. Customer Service training. Basic First Aid. License & Liability. Landowner Concerns. Logistics of organizing a field trip. Family field trips w/children. Plan B?for when the birds don?t cooperate. Value?.it?s OK to charge for your services. Plus a Questions & Answer period. Training sessions will be held June 20, 2007 at the Log House and Homestead Bed & Breakfast near Vergas, MN. and on June 27, 2007 at the Auf Deutsche Strasse Bed & Breakfast, 404 South German Street in New Ulm, MN. Cost of the training sessions, including lunch and the joint field trip will be $25.00 for guides and will be due along with your sign-up form by June 1, 2007. Questions? Contact project coordinator, Dave Vogel, Explore Minnesota Tourism at 1-888-975-6766 or via e-mail at dave.vogel at state.mn.us . Sharon Stiteler www.birdchick.com Minneapolis, MN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070521/ab325f5f/attachment-0001.html
