CPD Sessions
Professional tourist guides never stop learning. WFTGA Continuous Professional Development sessions are created by guides, for guides — interactive online sessions of around an hour, delivered to the WFTGA membership.
Why join a CPD session?
New tools and techniques
Technology in guiding, online guiding, heritage interpretation, crisis management — practical and immediately usable.
A worldwide staffroom
Learn from experienced guides and trainers across 50 countries, and exchange what works where you guide.
Evidence of development
Every session comes with a certificate of attendance recording the content and duration.
Upcoming and recent sessions
Topic
Level
11 Nov
- 11 Nov 2026
2 hours
Accessible guiding is not a separate kind of tour — it is good guiding. This session looks at practical adjustments for visitors with mobility, sensory, cognitive and neurodivergent access needs, and at how to ask…
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14 Oct
- 14 Oct 2026
2 hours
A plain-language introduction to artificial intelligence for working tourist guides: what these tools actually do, where they genuinely help in tour preparation, marketing and administration, and where they get things wrong in ways that matter…
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16 Sep
- 16 Sep 2026
2 hours
Dramaturgy is the difference between a walk that delivers facts and a tour that people talk about for years. In this CPD session we look at how techniques from film, literature and theatre translate into…
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Trainers: would you like to host a session?
WFTGA Trainers and Guides are invited to share their expertise and to propose topics for future CPD sessions. If you have something you would like to teach, we would like to hear about it.