OUTDOOR RECREATION MANAGEMENT

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*Your Adventure Awaits.*

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Outdoor Recreation Management 1​

“Hosting guests in the Maine outdoors” In ORM 1, students learn to provide safe and adventurous customer service to their guests. So whether a student wants to run a whitewater rafting company in the Forks, become a Registered Maine Guide, or be an incredible service provider in ski industry or any outdoor industry, she or he will be able to deliver customer satisfaction across the guest cycle. Students will also build essential skills in safety and risk mitigation, recognizing human motivation, providing seamless guest experiences, recovering dissatisfied guests, and in ethical decision making. Students will learn a variety of outdoor hard skills, leadership problem solving skills, industry etiquette, ethics and environmental consciousness that will support their opportunities to sustain and grow tourism. Focused industry activities will include safety, outdoor skills in camping and hiking, canoe and personal watercraft, fishing and fly-tying, hunting, skiing, snowshoeing, trail building, snowmobiling and atv safety, map and compass, boater’s safety, outdoor cooking, bicycling, GPS/mapping, and principles of hospitality.

 

Outdoor Recreation Management 2​

Students who participate in ORM 2 will focus on their leadership skills in adventure tourism. All ORM 2 students will participate in planning and executing outdoor group activities for an authentic audience, Continuing to advance their outdoor hard skills and will gain certification in ServSafe food handling, in CPR/First Aid, and in Wilderness First Aid.

 

Outdoor Recreation Management 3

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Students who participate in ORM 3 will continue to focus on their leadership skills in adventure tourism.