Fabio Saba

Full CV / Resume

Abroad Experience

Radak Adventure (Malaysia)
Feb. 2015 – Present
Volunteer/Leader Guide
Leading visitors into adventure activities, such as: river kayaking and tubing, caving, hiking and waterfall abseiling. Developing and promoting marketing collaterals materials to support the sales, including graphic design for brochures, banners, catalogues, content images. Please, see more:

The Jungle Eco-guide Service (Laos)
Feb. 2014 – Dez. 2014
Inbound Tour Manager
Build and maintain relationships with communities visited, local guides, provincial tourism department and local travel agents and tour operators. Develop itineraries and schedule with guides. Provide monthly lecturing for tour guide team into techniques of leading groups. Conduct daily sales missions to local visitors (front desk assistance), travel agencies and tour operators. Develop and promoting marketing collaterals, e-brochures and a new site to support sell strategies of products in outdoor experience itineraries, including market research and advertising. Daily maintenance of office space, including light cleaning; ensuring the office remains a safe and productive working environment at all times. Contribute to the company vision of making holiday dreams come true by being responsible for the day to day operation of the front desk, includes providing information to local area attractions, check in/out formalities, cash handling and balancing procedures, enquiries/bookings and reservations. Posting ads on the Internet, setting appointments, touring the community and participating in outreach and tour program based marketing initiatives. Assist in service reconciliation opportunities to achieve clients satisfaction and retention.

LPDR National Council of Tourism (Laos)
Feb. 2014 – May. 2014
Researcher Volunteer
This research examines Nam Ha Ecotourism Project in Nam Ha Protected Area (NPA) in Laos, which have been established by provincial government office since 1999. In order to figure out trans-boundary nature of relationship problems between growth private sector and government management that have giving rise to a significant body of complaints around NPA area in Luang Namtha province. At first, to find the proper alternatives to settle data report gaps among the stakeholders and propose recommendations to improve up the basis of study finding. The result of this volunteer work was a recommendation report (45 pages) focused on four main themes: Tourism User Fee Program, Awareness Campaign for Visitors, Ecotourism Training Program and Ecotourism Certification Program. The study also draws out others thirteen elements of support, required in order, to perform the main recommendations, containing a set of adapted suggestions. Please, see more:

Phra Thong Nature Resort (Thailand)
Aug. 2013 – Jan. 2014
Volunteer/Assistant General Manager and Tour Guide
Joining during pre-opening period, to assist general manager in all set-up and coordinate all outlets concept, such as bungalows, backyard, bar and restaurant, visual equipment for banqueting and collateral material marketing. Responsible for effectively and efficiently checking in/out all guests. Welcoming and accuray verifying all information during the check-in process and following up during the check-out. Accommodate resort patrons by registering and assigning bungalows to guests. Making and confirming reservations, transmitting and receiving messages, keeping records of occupied bungalows and guests’ s and supporting guests with touring the property. Built friendly relationships with guests and co-workers. Planning and leading groups of visitors into outdoor activities (hiking and sea kayaking).

Sabbatical Period (New Zealand)
Apr. 2012 – Jun. 2013
In order to study English and seek the major outdoor travel destination in the world. Travelling extensively for research my empirical journey through New Zealand, trekking a of wilderness areas, living in huts and camp-sites, spending my time with local people and worldwide travellers, and above all getting to know how the public and private services of travel activities works. Please, see more:

Brazil Experience
Posted on January 1 by Fabio Saba

SENAC – National Commercial Training Service
Jun. 2011 – Dez. 2011
Train Instructor
Developing a thematic book using new methodology follow technical standards, focus on safety management, trekking leaders, rating of routes and preliminary information for customers. It includes a lesson plan that would make the students recognize the tourist attractions on surroundings area, teach behavioral and professional skills, development of short itineraries, and others. The methodology considers students’ background knowledge, environment, and their learning goals. This also looked upon learning outside of the classroom by accompanying students on field survey/trips.

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ICE – Capixaba Ecotourism Institute
Aug. 2009 – Jun. 2011
Ecotourism Plan Researcher
DSC00062Collecting primary data by carefully field research and analysis systematically of secondary data for report findings back for setting a plan itineraries and marketing strategies/services. It means preparing of inventories and diagnostics of eco-tourism on-site survey of tourist attractive, formatting scripts segmented organization of participatory workshops and geo-referencing of trails.

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Vivencial Brasil – Outdoor Activities
Apr. 2006 – Jun. 2009
Coordinator of Experiential Activities
Planning and managing team building activities associated with Natural and Social Sciences in which participate in a variety of adventurous challenges and outdoor activities such as hiking, canoeing and group games. It includes outdoor experiential training into to walking endurance for business corporations and educational institutions.

CCTrekking Adventure – Walking Endurance
Jan. 2000 – May 2007
Trail Coordinator/Team Building Manager
Planning wilderness adventure for orienteering day-hike to small teams with interesting task along the way. Designing in-site (measure and draw out) walking endurance pacenotes in a variety of adventurous challenges activities. It follows the concept of the traditional Regularity-Rally (time-speed-distance), testing ability of team to stay on track and on time. Unlike of the usual topographic maps, here we use the convencional pacenotes of rally racing, that accuray describing the route to be walked in extreme detail, dictating the general way to be taken, junctions, distance between each references, regular speed, degree compass markings (thumb compass) and special instructions for the teams. As in knows events of ‘team building’, also are found a series of interesting tasks to develop communication, planning, relationships, focus, time management. But the pacenotes give to us an unique opportunity to include all notable features of the route which might affect the way it is taken, such as: trees, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, mountains, beaches, village, ruins, monuments, temples etc., and, evidently, explaining full details about those spots, on topics such as: environmental, historical, cultural and geographical.