Private guiding and business building!

Many guides are looking to move to the next step in their guiding career. This usually steers in the direction of becoming a private guide and/or starting your own travel agency. Using your acquired skills in the field to curate your own safari experiences and, where necessary, lead them as a private guide. We are here to make sure you have the right tools to make this dream happen!

After much research and discussion amongst a hefty team of people that run their own companies in tourism and may work as private guides we have realised much about the pros of becoming your own boss or transitioning into private guiding. The most notable being listed below...

• Transitioning out of living in lodges to living at home
• Easier to cultivate relationships, both with family and life-partners
• Better renumeration, when done properly
• Opportunities to travel the continent, expand your portfolio and learn about the far reaches of Africa
• More time to enjoy hobbies, previously a challenge whilst working in lodges
• Ability to mange your time better, rest/work cycles