INTERNATIONAL TOURIST GUIDE DAY 2024
On the 21st of February each year we celebrate the occasion of International Tourist Guide Day. This is a day dedicated to the profession of Tourist Guiding and affords us the opportunity to highlight and showcase this profession on the global stage. This is a day that was set in motion in 1989 at the 3rd […]
International Tourist Guide Day 2018
Message from the WFTGA EXBO 2017-2019 WFTGA has been in existence for 33 years, and since 1990 we have celebrated the International Tourist Guide Day worldwide. Within that time it has become a major promotion for our profession, for members and supporting partners alike. Check WFTGA Facebook Page for members’ celebrations. Let us know about […]
ITGD Message from WFTGA EXBO 2017-2019
Message from WFTGA EXBO for International Tourist Guide Day 2017Send your news and events to [email protected]
International Tourist Guide Day 2016: Newletter
International Tourist Guide Day February 21st is fast approaching and we would like to inform members and colleagues around the world to celebrate somehow locally. Using your smart phones post your message to the WFTGA facebook page and twitter accounts Remember to use the WFTGA logo for International Tourist Guide Day and be visible. Send any […]
International Tourist Guide Day 2014
DEAR MEMBERS, COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS of WFTGA: It is the 25th year we celebrate International Tourist Guide Day around the world and many volunteer for a major celebration in order to promote the profession of the “Area Specific Interpreter”. Many organize guided tours for free: more than 40 cities in Germany offer special treats (link: http://www.germany.travel/en/news/news_detail-156929.html ); […]
International Tourist Guide Day 2013
International Tourist Guide Day is being celebrated all over the world. The day is an opportunity for tourist guides to show their local communities what they do. For more information contact [email protected]
International Tourist Guide Day February 21st… Every year!!!
ITGD in Abu Dhabi A Must for Local Citizens and Local Tourism and Travel Industry Partners. Get to Know the Professional Tourist Guides and Your Ambassadors to the world! February 21st. an initiative of WFTGA, the International Tourist Guide Day is held on 21st February each year. In 1990, Mrs. Titina Loizides, president of the […]
International Tourist Guide Day in Vienna
In 1989, at its 3rd Convention the WORLD FEDERATION OF TOURIST GUIDE ASSOCIATIONS decided in Cyprus that the 21st of February shall be instituted as the “INTERNATIONAL TOURIST GUIDE DAY”, commemorating the foundation of its own organization back in 1985 in Israel where the first international convention had taken place. Since 1990 tourist guide colleagues […]
International Tourist Guide Day in Iceland
The Iceland Tourist Guide Association in cooperation with a local tour operator and the Hunting Museum in the south of Iceland invited the blind and sight impaired on an excursion to “see” wild animals from Africa on International Tourist Guide Day 21 February 2006. Forty people accepted the invitation which was a great success. The […]
International Tourist Guide Day in Uganda
Uganda Tourist Guides celebreated the International Tourist Guide Day on Saturday 22nd April, 2006. Two major activities were carried out. Bird watching with young birders, and launching a cultural walk in the city. At the end of the birding activity, the young birder were given a simple asignment of writing the birds they had seen […]
