PADI International Holiday Association is a membership association. There are diving centers that only operate diving training and equipment sales, as well as diving resorts that operate diving and hotel services. The scores from low to high are:
PADI diving center /PADI diving resort
PADI Five Star Diving Center /PADI Five Star Diving Resort
PADI Five-Star Coach Development Center /PADI Five-Star Coach Development Diving Resort
PADI Wuxing career development center
PADI diving center (PADI diving center)
These members mainly serve local divers, meet the basic teaching standards of PADI, engage in leisure diving teaching (courses for divers) and equipment retail rental and maintenance services, and are qualified to organize snorkeling, lung diving, diving trips and other activities.
PADI diving resort (padi dive site)
This resort-based operator will cater to tourists' needs, provide various scuba diving and snorkeling teaching, experience scuba diving, diving guides and equipment rental services, and may also include equipment sales and other water sports activities. They are usually located in resorts, directly affiliated to hotels, and resorts provide accommodation for tourist divers.
PADI Wuxing diving center
Such members can provide all-round diving education plans, equipment purchase and experience opportunities, show their professional image, actively promote snorkeling, leisure scuba diving, diving tourism and environmental awareness, and strive to provide customers with satisfactory experience and excellent diving experience.
PADI five-star diving resort (PADI five-star diving resort)
Such members can provide professional and complete diving training, equipment purchase, hotel services including accommodation, and actively promote environmental awareness. These diving businesses often cater to the interests of tourists and promote the development of local leisure diving. Look at the sign of the Palme d 'Or. It was once called "PADI Palme d 'Or Resort".
PADI Wuxing tutor development center (PADI Wuxing tutor development center)
The five-star international data center must meet the standards of all PADI five-star diving centers and provide the same level of service. At the same time, they also need to meet additional training requirements and provide professional training at the PADI coaching level. At least one course supervisor is needed to work in the town and be able to provide teacher development courses. If your goal is to become a PADI diving instructor, then you need to find a PADI five-star IDC.
PADI five-star coach develops diving resorts.
The five-star IDC of the resort is a member of the five-star diving resort. In addition to meeting all the requirements of a five-star diving resort, it can also provide professional training for PADI coaches. In addition, at least one curriculum leader can lead teachers to develop the curriculum. It was once called "PADI Palme d 'Or Coach Development Center".
PADI Wuxing career development center (PADI Wuxing career development center)
Referred to as "disease control", this is more powerful. PADI five-star coach can only be awarded this honor if he develops diving centers, provides employment-oriented training and really helps diving leaders achieve their professional goals (including providing employment services in diving industry). PADI five-star CDC is committed to pursuing Excellence and providing divers with opportunities for diving lifestyle.
Few dive shops can do this. At present, there are 196 PADI diving centers and resorts in Greater China, but as far as I know, there are only a few in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The institution where I work now, Asian Diving Institute, used to be the only PADI five-star CDC in Singapore, and now it has all moved to SSI to become a regional service center, taking over Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.
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PADI diving boat (PADI diving boat)
Mainly for tourists to take diving boats, engage in leisure scuba diving or snorkeling tourism teaching to provide services, and some will also provide diving equipment rental, refueling and other water sports activities. If the PADI diving shop you choose has its own boat, or has the opportunity to participate in children's shoes on the boat, please look for this sign on the boat.
Please refer to the PADI official website link for the above contents:
/Yopadi/Yopadi-Diving Center and Resort
PADI's criteria for applying for a five-star store include but are not limited to the following:
1. You must swear allegiance to PADI. You can only provide PADI plans and courses, and you are not allowed to teach courses of other organizations, such as SSI and CMAS. Meanwhile.
2. At least 150 certified students must meet the following figures:
Five PADI diving captains
50 PADI senior open water divers
10 PADI rescue diver
Five PADI celebrity divers
10 project award 3. Some basic hardware qualifications must be met, such as the number of coaches, the number of classrooms, the number of swimming pools, the number of rented equipment storage rooms, the number of diving boats, and the number of equipment sales stores. There is a list on the application form, and I can't remember the specific content. )
Understand the importance of all-round diving service center.
An excellent diving center should provide all-round services for diving enthusiasts. Through a fully functional diving center, diving enthusiasts all over the world can not only provide basic education, training and equipment shopping, but also gain diversified exchanges of knowledge, skills and even life interests through exclusive club functions, thus improving the quality and fun of participating in diving activities.
In addition to enthusiastic senior coaches, divers with different qualifications from all over the world also gathered in this diving center, forming a small group centered on the diving theme. Because of the same topic, the different backgrounds of members enrich the connotation of participating in diving club activities. The arrangement for participants to get a high-quality diving trip has also invisibly improved the quality of life and made it an exquisite all-round diving center.
The choice of resorts can only help you filter out some irregular institutions. The core link of diving teaching is the coach who directly connects with the trainees, which is easily overlooked by consumers. I suggest you know more about the instructor when you plan to learn diving and choose a diving shop, instead of just comparing the price and accommodation environment.