Nunivak Island, Bering Sea Kayak Training

Education Partnerships PAY OFF

NIMA (Nunivak Island Mekoryuk Alaska) Corporation, the subsidiary NICEA (Nunivak Island Cutural and Educational Adventures) the University of Alaska Fairbanks - Kuskokwim Campus and the Alaskan Outdoor Center have teamed up to support the development of a research and ecotour facility at the old village site of Nash Harbor.



Guide training specific to the time and place have been pursued. Trainees have been supported in their personal and career goals. Trainings in business operations, computer skills, hospitality and tour service orientations, as well as academic training via new 'Ethnobotany' electives at the regional Kuskokwim Campus, CRA, UAF.

NICEA holds one of the only large cruise ship / tourism contracts in the YK Delta as a result of their efforts. Read about it in the Alaska Journal of Commerce.


NICEA, KuC and AOC team after the first Cruise West Ship landed at Nash Harbor, Nunivak Island. Note the ship in the right background!





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