Tour guides in North Rupununi training

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Birding tour guide Ron Allicock (second from right) leads Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai (third from right) and USAID Director Carol Horning (second, left) and training participants on a tour of the environs of the Bina Hill Institute. (Photo courtesy of Kirk Smock)
Birding tour guide Ron Allicock (second from right) leads Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai (third from right) and USAID Director Carol Horning (second, left) and training participants on a tour of the environs of the Bina Hill Institute. (Photo courtesy of Kirk Smock)

Twenty-three tour guides are attending a two-week Interpretive Guide Training Programme being held at several locations across the North Rupununi.

Sessions are being held at the Bina Hill Institute, the Rock View Lodge, the Atta Rainforest Lodge and the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway and the Surama Village and Eco-Lodge, in a programme sponsored and organised by the Guyana Sustainable Tourism Initiative. Rupununi River Drifters and Guyana Feather Friends are among the tourism businesses participating in this joint United States Agency for International Development/ Guyana Trade and Investment Support (USAID/GTIS) Project and the Guyana Tourism Authority.

Tourism lodges, community tourism projects and tourism organisations from across Guyana were invited to send one of their lead guides to