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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.  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 […]

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; […]