Host a WFTGA Course
HOT, Train the Trainer and Site Guide Training are delivered on location worldwide — and they work best in-house, in the area-specific working conditions of the guides taking part. Associations, destinations, sites and training providers can commission a course directly from the WFTGA Training Division.
What a hosted course involves
You provide
A venue, the local guiding sites and routes, a group of participants, and a local coordinator.
WFTGA provides
Qualified International Trainers, the full course programme, all training materials, assessment and certification.
Participants receive
A WFTGA certificate — of Successful Completion or of Attendance — recognised across 50 countries.
Which course fits?
- Building or strengthening a national guide training programme — HOT, integrated near the start of your programme
- Growing your own trainers so the programme becomes self-sustaining — Train the Trainer
- Raising the visitor experience at a specific museum, monument or attraction — Site Guide Training
- A speciality: cruise guiding, a particular heritage theme, a defined skill set — a Specialist Guiding Course built to order
Tell us what you are trying to achieve rather than which course you think you need — the Training Committee will advise.
Our courses
Webinar
Live, interactive online sessions created by guides, for guides — around one hour each, delivered to the WFTGA membership.
Intermediate
2 hours
Virtual
English
Certified Course
Courses compiled and developed on request for a specific guiding speciality or client.
Intermediate
3 days
In Person
English
Certified Course
Practical guiding skills for site guides, delivered in co-operation with a specific visitor attraction.
Beginner
3 days
In Person
English
Certified Course
The advanced qualification for WFTGA National Trainers seeking to train tourist guides and trainers internationally.
Trainer
1 week
In Person
English
Certified Course
The qualification for active tourist guides who want to become tourist guide trainers in their own area of qualification.
Advanced
2 weeks
In Person
English
Certified Course
The WFTGA flagship introductory course in practical guiding skills, delivered on location worldwide by WFTGA International Trainers.
Beginner
1 week
In Person
English