Job Prospects for Graduates

Our Outdoor Adventure Naturalist graduates are working in many areas of the outdoor adventure or recreation and tourism industry.  Their highly-developed outdoor skills lead them to employment opportunities as guides, instructors, or nature interpreters with the potential to move up to supervisory and management positions. Many students will also start their own adventure travel operations.

Graduates are currently working as canoe, sea kayak and mountain bike guides, naturalists, park interpreters, ecology educators, supervisors of recreation and camp programs, managing tripping companies, teaching at outdoor centres, and running their own businesses.  Below are links to outdoor and adventure tourism companies who are possible employers for our students.

Graduates are also able to continue their post-secondary studies by taking advantage of our articulation agreement with Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.    They can receive advanced standing in TRU's Bachelor of Tourism Management degree program.  (See Diploma to Degree)

Links to some outdoor, adventure, tourism companies and organizations:

Outdoor Adventure Naturalist and

Adventure Tourism Trends

Tourism is Canada's fastest growing industry and within that, Adventure and Ecotoourism is the fastest growing individual segment at 15% per year (according to the Canadian Tourism Commission).

The estimated 10,000 Outdoor Tourism companies in Canada struggle to find certified, trained staff, and regularly recruit and post new job opportunities through the program.

Some of the key findings from information gathered through a Travel Activities and Motivation Survey were:

For more information on tourism trends

in the outdoor adventure segment,

visit www.canadatourism.com

For more information on the

Outdoor Adventure Naturalist Co-op Program, contact:

IAN PINEAU, PROGRAM COORDINATOR
pineaui@algonquincollege.com,
(613) 735-4700, Ext. 2759

Photos by Tim Landon (above), Outdoor Adventure Naturalist Graduate 2003, and Jeff Manchak; used with permission. All rights reserved.   Read Tim's Success Story here.