The Professional Guide's Handbook manages to be a theoretical book with an extremely concrete and hands-on usage. It is encouraging, reaching a broad spectrum of guides with various experiences. It allows you to self-reflect and learn, motivating you to “be your best guide”.
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- ## About the Author

Colby Brokvist is a professional guide who leads worldwide expeditions for some of the most acclaimed companies in adventure travel. He was inspired to pursue guiding as a career during a through-hike of the Appalachian Trail in the summer of 2000. Since then, he has led hundreds of adventure travel departures, ranging from backpacking and trekking adventures to mountaineering and rock-climbing trips, sea kayaking and sailing voyages, and wildlife safaris. His expeditions have taken him to destinations as far-flung as Greenland, Antarctica, Africa, and Patagonia, as well as across the United States and Canada. In addition to fieldwork, Colby assumes a variety of managerial, operational, and consulting roles within the adventure travel sphere. His work centers on guide training, guide team management, and itinerary development. He sits on the board of directors for the Polar Tourism Guides Association and is a certified Senior Polar Guide through the same organization. He calls Boulder, Colorado, home.

- ## Genre/Subject

TRAVEL

- ## Awards and Reviews

Winner of the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (in Travel and Travel Guidebooks Category)

In an industry with no official training path, this book is the most accurate trail map a guide could ask for. Colby has crafted an immense set of knowledge into an entertaining and educational masterpiece. I've been a guide service owner for over 30 years and have now made The Professional Guide's Handbook mandatory reading for all new and current guides."

-Ian Elman, Founder, Southern Yosemite Mountain Guides

The Professional Guide's Handbook is required reading for all adventure travel guides. Colby Brokvist not only shares the vital and complicated skills required to guide adventure travelers to the most remote corners of the planet, but he also captures the essence of guiding as a profession and the burning passions required to succeed at the highest level. If you want to be a great guide, read this book and pay attention.

-Ben Bressler, Founder & President Natural Habitat Adventures

Colby has written the current apogee of resources in this field. The Professional Guides Handbook covers material in an aptly applied manner with modern frames of operation, relevant new and updated themes that neophytes and old hands alike will find invaluable. The international guidesphere has needed this for a long time.

-Graham Charles, President Polar Tourism Guides Association

Many guides learned their craft on the job over years or decades. With this handbook, new guides will have valuable techniques, insights and examples at their fingertips that otherwise would take them years to learn.  Veteran guides will see themselves and their guests in these pages, be reenergized for their work, and be reminded why they chose this career.

As an experienced guide I was impressed to see the breadth of information Colby has included in this book. Although many topics could (and do) have whole books written about them, Colby has condensed them to manageable yet thorough chapters with excellent real-life examples.

- Sue Perin, Field Staff Training and Education Specialist, Lindblad Expeditions

In the world of guiding, there is no substitute for direct experience. The lessons within the Professionals Guide’s Handbook are a must-read for aspiring guides getting their start in the industry, and also for veterans looking to hone their skills and take them to the next level.

-Graham Ottley, Instructor & Technical Support Manager, Colorado Mountain Club

Colby has nailed the totality of guiding adventure travel trips. The Professional Guide’s Handbook is a must-read for all aspiring guides, current guides and adventure travel operators that hire guides.

-Jim Sano VP Conservation Travel World Wildlife Fund and former President of Geographic Expeditions and Yosemite National Park District Naturalist

This book is amazing, and contains everything from A to Z to be much more successful on every expedition. I wish I had this jewel 16 years ago when I started guiding!

-Josy Cardoso, Expedition Leader & Advisor to the Association of Naturalist Guides of the Galapagos

The Professional Guide's Handbook manages to be a theoretical book with an extremely concrete and hands-on usage. It is encouraging, reaching a broad spectrum of guides with various experiences. It allows you to self-reflect and learn, motivating you to “be your best guide”.

-Pernille Søegaard, Co-Founder and Instructor, Expedition Guide Academy

"Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "The Professional Guide's Handbook: How to Lead Adventure Travel Trips and Expeditions" is a comprehensive and thoroughly 'user friendly' instruction manual and 'how to' guide for creating and succeeding in a travel guide career. While available in a digital book format "The Professional Guide's Handbook: How to Lead Adventure Travel Trips and Expeditions" is an ideal and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, and community library Jobs/Careers and General/Adventure Travel Reference collections and reading lists."

–Midwest Review of Books

- ## ISBN

ISBN 9781682753248

- ## Publication Date

May 2022

- ## Page Count

359 pages

- ## Format

Paperback

- ## Trim Size

7x9

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