Marine ecotourism careers
A list of the careers categorized as those where people have various kinds of businesses that cater towards the promotion of marine tourism and entertainment.
The list includes careers where people:
- Are engaged in tourism related businesses
- Run entertainment and conservation businesses, such as aquariums
Career List
Click on the name of a career to view its summary. You can then read more about the career by clicking on the CAREER PAGE link.
Minimum Entry Level: High School Certificate
Animal Species: Pets, Critters, Farm Animals, Wildlife
An Animal Caretaker is the general and overall description used for someone who cares for the needs of animals. They feed, water, groom, bathe, and exercise animals. They work with domesticated or wild animals, in a variety of places, such as animal shelters, kennels, zoos, stables, pet stores, veterinary clinics, and aquariums.
Minimum Entry Level: College Diploma
Animal Species: Critters, Wildlife
Animal Keepers care for animals in zoos, aquariums, and the different parks used for entertainment, education and conservation.
Also known as:
- Zookeeper
Minimum Entry Level: Bachelor’s Degree
Animal Species:Â Fish, Marine Mammals
An aquarist is an individual that cares for the marine life in aquariums by maintaining their living environments and having hands on interactions with the creatures.
Also known as:
- Aquarium Technician
Minimum Entry Level: Bachelor’s Degree
Animal Species: Pets, Critters, Farm Animals, Wildlife
A campaign coordinator is an individual whose role it is to coordinate a campaign’s operations, which could include actions involving fundraising, marketing, and other activities of the organization they work for. They help a campaign succeed.
Animal campaign coordinators therefore help to finish campaigns that benefit animals.
Minimum Entry Level: College Diploma
Animal Species: Cats, Dogs, Critters, Farm Animals, Wildlife
Charity events organizers plan and manage events for organizations in order to raise their public profile or secure them funding to be able to do their work.
Also known as:
- Events Organizer
- Fundraiser
- Sponsor Coordinator
Minimum Entry Level: College Diploma
Animal Species: Wildlife
Landscape architectural technologists help landscape architects, engineers, planners, and horticulturists by putting all of their ideas on paper through art and design.
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Minimum Entry Level: High School Certificate
Animal Species: Mammals
Exotic animal trainers work with wildlife to teach them specific actions on command. They mostly work within the entertainment side of the animal careers. This also includes animals used in movies, and the marine mammals you see at aquariums and sea worlds.
Minimum Entry Level: Bachelor’s Degree
Animal Species: Mammals
A Park Naturalist plans, develops, and conducts programs to inform the public of the historical, natural, and scientific features of specific natural area.
Minimum Entry Level: High School Certificate
Animal Species: Fish, Crustaceans, Mollusks
Scuba Diving & Snorkel Tour Operators are highly qualified scuba divers who use their skills and knowledge of both fish and the ocean to accompany tourists along the ocean floor to look at various lifeforms.
Minimum Entry Level: High School Certificate
Animal Species: Wildlife
Shark Cage Dive Operators are highly qualified scuba divers who use their skills and knowledge of sharks to accompany tourists in steel cages in the water to see and photograph sharks.
Also known as:
- Great white shark guide
- Shark Cage Boat Operators
Minimum Entry Level: High School Certificate
Animal Species: Wildlife
Whale watching tour operators use their knowledge and passion for whales (and in same cases dolphins, orcas and narwhals as well) to take tourists out on boats to experience these animals in their natural Environment.
