Silk Road Heritage Training
Encouraged by renewed interest in the Silk Road, UN Tourism (then UNWTO) decided to revive the ancient routes as a tourism concept, uniting three continents once more in a project encompassing over 12,000 km.
Part of the Silk Road Task Force
As an Affiliate Member of UN Tourism, WFTGA is part of the Silk Road Task Force and takes part in Task Force meetings, ministers’ meetings, workshops and other initiatives. Through this project the importance of professional tourist guides is promoted to tourism stakeholders and decision makers in the Silk Road member countries, and WFTGA promotes its standards through training programmes delivered to colleagues from this vast region.
Ivana Ćuruvija, previous Head of the WFTGA Training Division and Lead International Trainer, is WFTGA’s contact for the Silk Road initiative.
The bridge between east and west is the very crossroads of civilization. Far from being on the fringe of global affairs, these countries lie at its very centre, as they have done since the beginning of history.Peter Frankopan, author of “The Silk Roads”
Training Silk Road Heritage Guides
So far WFTGA has delivered training courses for Silk Road Heritage Guides in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, attended by tourist guides from the wider region. During the global pandemic WFTGA worked with UNESCO Almaty to deliver a blended programme with in-person training in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in November 2021.
Training Handbook for Silk Road Heritage Guides
In 2020 UNESCO Almaty, jointly with WFTGA, published a revised and extended edition of the Training Handbook for Silk Road Heritage Guides.
Training for your region
WFTGA can send trainers to you for in-house courses anywhere in the world.