San Pedro Tourist Guide Association

31/01/2025

KIDS IN ACTION 2025
July 7 to 27 2025
Diving Fishing Snorkeling!!
Reach out to your principals!!
KIDS RULE !

24/12/2024

SanPedro Tourist Guide Association Office
Will be closed as every year from December 23 2024 to January 6 2025
HAVE A SAFE BUSY SEASON GUIDES !!
SAFETY FIRST !

02/10/2024

Let’s tackle the mangrove threats !
Join and fight in numbers!!!
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Encouraging the safeguarding of mangroves in Belize to maintain habitat function, support livelihoods, and serve as a buffer against climate change.

05/06/2024

KIDS IN ACTION 2024 is almost here !!
Kids Rule !!

03/03/2024

Graduating Class of 2023/24

Firstly, I want to thank the Most High for giving us good health and great weather to complete another class of 36 professional tour guides.
Want to thank the government of Belize in investing into the tourism industry and recognizing that it starts with the storytellers, the front liners, our hard working Tourguides.

I also want to thank Minister Of Tourism
Hon. Anthony Mahler for assisting each and every candidate that participated, financial assistance of $1000 towards their cost of the course.
Want to also thank Mayor Wally and San Pedro Town Council for paving a healthy community and ensuring that Tourguides have a great environment to work from “La Isla Bonita”

Mr. Ian Pou and the Hol Chan, Marine reserve Board of Directors and staff for ensuring that we have great safe areas for our guides to take guests and create tours.

Mr. Roberto Canul and San Pedro tour Operators association for always assisting our training tour guides and allowing them to be on training tours while conducting their classes.
Mr. Roberto Bradley and Ambergris Caye Fishing Guide association that is always assisting guides to ensure that they can be placed on different types of activities, especially fishing from their association.

The San Pedro Tourguide association in assuring that there is always a healthy and continuous amount of training possible for both incoming, and also for other existing tour guides. The associations are key stakeholders for a healthy community.

To the San Pedro Junior Colege for always opening doors when it comes to professional training and creating new and more professional tour guides .

My final, thank you goes to the new professional tour guides of La Isla Bonita. You have risen the bar in tour guiding. You have high ethics to follow, make Belize proud and assure that guest are SAFE, EDUCATED, ENTERTAINED and assuring that they return to Belize. Your new training, assured the implementation of the TORE model
T for always staying with your theme.
O ensuring that your tours are well organized.
R remaining relevant.
E All this comes in an entertaining manner.

In Closing , take this with you “NO JOB TOO TUFF
NO WEATHER TOO RUFF
PLEASE MAKE SURE THEY ALWAYS GET E-NUFF”.

Thank you
Billy Leslie
BTB educator and Trainer!!

02/03/2024

Graduating class of 2024 !!!
Congratulations!!!
March 1st 2024
36 NEW Tourguides !!!

02/08/2023

Congratulations to another successful KIDS IN ACTION 2023
PADI, DAN, Dr Daniel, BTB, Hon Anthony Mahler, Hon Andre Perez, Mayor Wally Nunez, Ian Pou and HolChan, SPTOA, SPTGA, CZMAI, Omar Arceo and many operators and Especially the Instructors
On behalf of the 30 kids Scuba, 20 kids swimming and snorkeling, and 12 Flyfishing !!
Thank you always for always supporting!!

02/08/2023

Congratulations you our 52 New tourguides
Yes your heard right 52 new members received their BTB certification on August first 2023
Thanks you BTB, SPTC and mayor Wally, Hon Anthony Mahler, Hon Andre Perez, SPTOA Roberto Canul, Ian Pou HolChan, SPJC, and a special thank you to BTB trainer Philip Leslie .
Yes Welcome and Congratulations!!
Special congratulations to the Top 8 of the Class!!
1. Jorge Aldana
2. Jerrilee Garcia
3. Cyle Leonardo
4. John Forman
5. Blake Jonas
6. Roberto Tamai
7. Christian Osgalla
8. Errington Chi

18/07/2023

We are Doing it Again!! Thank you PADI, DAN, BTB, HOLCHAN,SPTC, ANDRE PÉREZ SPTOA and SPTGA!!!
KIDS RULE !!

18/07/2023

BIG Things !!!!
SanPedro Tour Operators Association
SanPedro Tourist Guide Association
CZMAI, Go Fish, Blue Bonefish, Tarpon Thrust, El Pescador SPTC, HolChan, Andre Pérez, BTB, and many others have partnered again to teach kids to FLY-FISH, SWIM and SNORKEL, and Our Favorite SCUBA-DIVE!!
60 kids !! 60 Kids having two weeks of Fun!!!
KIDS RULE !!!!

16/05/2023

Congratulations to Tropic Air and the New group of Pilots and employees that completed the Tourguide Course ! Welcome to the Elite Tourguides!!
Special Thanks to Belize Tourism Board, Tropic Air and their Instructor Philip “Billy “Leslie!!!
Congratulations!!!

17/04/2023

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13/12/2022

03/12/2022

Please go sign at the Tourguide office
Opens
Monday Wednesday and Friday at 9am to 12 noon
Tuesday and Thursday 1pm to 4pm

03/12/2022

Oceana Belize stands with all Belizeans who want to participate in deciding if the offshore oil moratorium is lifted.

For information on how to add your name to the petition, visit the link in our bio, contact Oceana via our social media platforms, or via WhatsApp at 610-0952.

Add your name. Sign the petition.

22/11/2022

Today 38 new tour guides received their certification from the Belize tourism Board through the SanPedro Junior College with instructors Philip Billy Leslie and Josue Sosa !! Congratulations to the new professional Tourguides !!!
Thank you Hon. Anthony Mahler, Hon. Andre Perez. Wally Nunez and the SanPedro Town Council. SanPedro Tour Operators. SanPedro Tourist Guide Association, Ambergris Fishing Association, and SanPedro Junior College..

09/07/2022

On their way to becoming
OPENWATER DIVERS
FLYFISHING
SWIMMER
KIDS IN ACTION
Special thanks to operators dive instructors
Hon Andre Perez Mayor Wally Ian Pau and Holchan Prodivers Ramon’s Amigos Del Mar

05/07/2022

The Kids in Action program is coordinated yearly by the San Pedro Tour Operators Association and San Pedro Tour Guides Association. The program entails taking kids between the ages of 12 to 15 years from different schools and training them to Dive. The objective of the program captures kids and ensures, the following:
1. STAY IN SCHOOL - The stay in school Assures that we give the different elementary schools the right on how to choose the kids. Some are selected by good conduct while others are selected by academic achievement. We obtain different kids and communicate with parents on how they are doing.
2. LEARN ECOLOGY - We ensure that there is a safe place for kids from different schools while they enjoy each other’s company. At the same time they learn about the ecology of the coral reef. They also get to understand and appreciate the Belize Barrier Reef. This will open their minds to protection and conservation. A popular activity chosen by them is a six hour clean up campaign.
LEARN TO DIVE - They learn to enjoy scuba. The biggest enthusiasm is learning how to conduct scuba. The kids are excited as they learn all academics and skills to scuba dive. They complete their junior open water certification from PADI .
CONTINUATION - The kids obtain the base knowledge and skills to dive and are perfect candidates for continuing programs like coral check, fish count, and even continuing to obtain advanced Open Water. Some of these kids have become dive masters, marine biologist instructors, operators and even end up owning their own operations. The sky is the limit and we have placed the corner stone for their carriers .
In conclusion our program is two weeks during the school summer vacation. We have chosen to stay with the PADI program because it’s the best choice for proper open water dive training. We use the elite of the instructors in SanPedro, Belize. PADI has been one of our biggest sponsor and best option in supporting our efforts for over 12 years by producing and donating the manuals and pictures. The San Pedro Tour Guides Association and the San Pedro Tour Operators Association would like to express their biggest thanks to PADI for always supporting their cause.
Special thanks go to Andre Perez and Blue Economy. Mayor Wally Nunez and SanPedro Town Council. Manager Ian Pau and Holchan Marine Reserve. Emiliano Rivero and Pro Divers . Billy Leslie and RRR Responders. The Many Dive Instructors and Dive Operators. Amigos Del Mar Ramon’s
Thank You!
On behalf of the kids THANK YOU.
KIDS RULE !!