Registrations Now Open for the CPD Course: Heritage Interpretation โ Krakรณw, Poland, December 2025
WFTGA is delighted to announce the next Continuous Professional Development opportunity for qualified tourist guides: the Certified Interpretive Guide (CIG) training course, certified by Interpret Europe. This 5-day, in-person programme will take place in Krakรณw, Poland, from 8โ12 December 2025, in cooperation with the Maลopolska Institute of Culture and the WFTGA Training Committee. This internationally […]
Train the Trainer Course now OPEN for applications
Do you share the desire to become a world-class tourist guide? Are you dreaming of passing on your skills and knowledge to the next generation of tourist guides? Are you keen in shaping the future of our ever evolving profession? Well, now is the time to become a WFTGA Trainer.ย We are inviting applications for […]
Newly qualified Blue Badge Tourist Guides for Scotland
News from the Scottish Tourist Guides Association (STGA) by Vice-Chair Fergus Halliday It was an absolute joy and pleasure to be at the Cowane’s Trust Hospital to welcome our latest batch of qualified guides in Scotland. The Scottish Tourist Guides Association Blue Badge, is a globally accredited, 20 month-long qualification that proves both the knowledge […]
ASEAN Tourist Guide Skills to be upgraded to WFTGA Standards by 2015
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WFTGA supports EN15565 2008, Training and Qualification of Tourist Guides in Europe and EN 13809 2003 which became ENISO 18513 2003 was adopted by WFTGA the 10th Convention, Dunblane, Scotland 2003 Tourist Guide: A person who guides visitors in the language of their choice and interprets the cultural and natural heritage of an area which […]
Draft CEN Standard for the Training and Qualification of Tourist Guides
EN 13809 OF THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDISATION (CEN) The final meeting of WG5 the European committee working to create the above standard took place in Athens on 26th & 27th April 2007. Tourist Guide experts for the various countries attending included Rosalind Newlands (WFTGA President) and Tom Hooper (FEG Chairman) UK; Efi Kalamboukidou Greece; […]