This course explores aspects of the ethics and sustainability of expeditions and adventurous travel, and how we can make better decisions to ensure a positive impact. It includes considerations around modes of transport, cultural sensitivity, ethics and both the positive and negative impacts individuals and groups can have when travelling, including on people, place and the environment.
 
Prepare to be challenged in your thinking regarding carbon, the economics of travel, how to plan volunteer project work, the use of porters and local guides and the design of expedition itineraries. You will be encouraged to think about the wide variety of impacts from your adventures, listen to different viewpoints, plan ways of being more sustainable and how to disseminate that in an achievable manner to clients that may look to you for best practice.

The workshop meets the UIMLA requirements for CPD in Sustainability for existing IMLs. The workshop is also very suitable for aspirant IMLs following the revised scheme and counts as 6 hours learning time, where a workshop of this kind is also supplemented with further learning during the training scheme.

What to Bring:

Packed Lunch, Pen, Paper and Clipboard (if you have one).

Tea and Coffee will be provided. There are cafes close by if you can’t bring a packed lunch.

Venue:

First Aid Exeter Training Centre, 1 st Floor, Unit 6, The Boat Shed, Michael Browning Way, Haven Road, Exeter, EX2 8DD

DRIVING: Public car just outside the venue - Haven Banks Car Park 2. All day parking is available for £5.40. Postcode EX2 8DP.

TRAIN: Approx. 13 minutes walk from Exeter St Thomas or Marsh Mills.

BUS: Haven Close is the nearest bus stop.

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Plan to arrive 15 minutes before the workshop starts.

Workshop provider:

The workshop will be delivered by Adrian Ferraro. Adrian has 20 years’ experience designing and delivering overseas and UK based expeditions for school groups. This included overall operational responsibility for 300+ expeditions to 25 countries, taking more than 8,000 teenagers to deserts, rainforests and the tops of 6,000m peaks in the Himalaya. He is a certified trainer for the Off-Site Safety Management course.

His companies, STC Expeditions and The Bioasis achieved compliance with both statute and non-statute safety standards including BS8848, British Activity Providers Association, AALA and Learning Outside The Classroom. Adrian is an Expedition Ethics and Responsible Tourism Lecturer for the International Diploma in Expedition Medicine, and the Postgraduate Diploma in Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians Glasgow.

He is also the editor of the Ethical Travel module of the course handbook. STC Expeditions achieved ISO 26000 (Corporate Social Responsibility guidelines and principles), ISO 14001 (Environmental management) and was the UK’s first travel company to achieve the internationally recognised ‘Travelife Sustainability Certification’. The Bioasis was a regenerative tourism adventure programme that won the Exeter Sustainability Awards in 2025. Adrian now runs a small business and adventure travel consultancy called Agile Pangolin (www.agile-pangolin.com).

Booking:

The workshop has been arranged by the BAIML SW Rep Cath Bateman. Please contact her with questions via WhatsApp or email on england.southwest.rep@baiml.org

CPD Points:

Please allow 2 weeks after the workshop for the CPD points to be added to the CMS profile of attendees. You do not need to add these points manually.

Cancellation:

A booking on this workshop is binding and refunds are not possible. Should the workshop be cancelled/postponed, a space will be offered on the same course at a later date or a full refund will be issued.

Start

10/10/2026 09:00

End

10/10/2026 16:00

Total Days

1

Maximum Bookings

12

Bookings

12

Venue

First Aid Exeter Training Centre, 1st Floor, Unit 6, The Boat Shed, Michael Browning Way, Haven Road,

Town

Exeter

County

Devon

Postcode

EX2 8DD

Country

United Kingdom

Location

50.71451,-3.52985

Name

British Association of International Mountain Leaders

Phone

07754 927940

Email