Sharing our Knowledge: Workshop on Social Enterprise and Responsible Tourism

Sharing our Knowledge: Workshop on Social Enterprise and Responsible Tourism

Sharing Responsible Tourism Knowledge with Local Students As a social enterprise, Soksabike works hard to ensure our guides are receiving training to improve their skill set but what do we do with all the knowledge our guides have aside from running tours? This summer, the Soksabike staff decided to add a new educational aspect to our recruitment initiatives to pass some of that knowledge along to local students. The team at Soksabike spent many hours fine tuning our presentation. We wanted to utilize skills our guides had learned over their time at Soksabike , like facilitating interactive activities and connecting with large groups. We started with a basic, text heavy Powerpoint but through the guidance of guides it transitioned to a fully interactive workshop to teach the principles of social enterprise and responsible tourism. Thursday before the presentation, Mony and Phalla led a dry run of the workshop to get the rest of us up to snuff on our facilitating skills. The team made sure i…