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International Tourist Guide Day February 21st… Every year!!!

03/25/2011
International TouristGuide Day

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...

WFTGA President Visits India

03/17/2011
ExBo

WFTGA President Rosalind Newlands was welcomed to India by P Asoka President of the Tourist Guides Federation of India. Rosalind was interviewed for the Hindu Newspaper while holidaying on board Swan Hellenic’s MV Minerva

The 14th WFTGA Convention, Tallinn Estonia: Culture as a Unifying Guide

02/04/2011
convention

Tallinn Guide Association welcomed more than 200 members from 42 countries to the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations Convention in 2011 in Tallinn! The Convention was supported by UNESCO with the keynote speaker M. Herve Barre from UNESCO HQ. Pre and Post Tours took place in South...

Guides Training Program in Armenia

10/30/2006
training

Guide Training and Partnership Development for Tourism Associations October 26. The continuing successful cooperation between the Competitive Armenian Private Sector Project (CAPS) and the the USAID-funded Human and Institutional Capacity Development project implemented by AED resulted in another...

Ruby Roy President of WFTGA addresses tourist guides in Abu Dhabi

08/24/2006
ExBo

United Arab Emirates of Tourist Guides (UAEFTG) were able through the experience and the knowledge of the WFTGA President to solve some pending issues and get some very good recommendation on how to proceed. On 4th of September they will announce the formation of UAEFTG with the support of Abu Dhabi...

Hands On Tourist Guiding in the United Arab Emirates

05/17/2006
news

We are pleased to announce that a group of 16 guides are currently undergoing Hands On Tourist Guiding in the United Arab Emerites with WFTGA Trainer Jenny Oulton assisted by Jasem Zaiton from Dubai who recently took part in our Train the Trainer Course in Cyprus. There are 12 nationalities on the...

WFTGA Hands On Tourist Guiding Course: Brunei

05/17/2006
training

Iris Barry and Mary Kemp Clarke are conducting the first WFTGA training courses in Brunei, sponsored by Brunei Tourism. Training, during November 2008 will include Hands On Tourist Guiding and Train the Trainer. For more information check the link below http://www.bt.com.bn/en/home_news/2008/11/...

Japanese guides invite people to come to Japan!!

05/17/2006
news

WFTGA President Rosalind Newlands and EXBO Member Govind Agrawal visit Macau

05/17/2006
ExBo

Rosalind Newlands and Govind Agrawal spent three days in Macau on a fact finding mission. We visited potential hotels and enjoyed fabulous Macanese food and hospitality. The programme will include pre and post tours to Hong Kong and a post tour to mainland China. Full programme and bookings coming...

International Tourist Guide Day in Vienna

05/09/2006
International TouristGuide Day

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...