Hands On Tourist Guide Training (HOT)

Duration 7 days

Target Group

The Hands on Tourist Guide Training (HOT) Course is designed as an introductory course in practical guiding skills and is equally suitable for guides who are already competent in local knowledge but wish to improve their practical guiding skills. The course is well suited to be integrated into existing tourist guide training programmes, preferably towards the beginning of the programme.

Location

The course is available on location worldwide and best delivered in-house, in the area-specific working conditions of the tourist guides.

Assessment and Examination

Practical guiding assessments and written and/or oral examinations.

Certificates

Depending on individual results, WFTGA issues either Certificates of Successful Completion of the course or Certificates of Attendance. For courses conducted in the WFTGA International Training Centres, certificates are issued jointly by the University of Cyprus or Yerevan State University, respectively.

Progression

is possible to WFTGA National Trainer through the Train the Trainer (TtT) Course.

Course Content includes

Practical Tourist Guiding Skills:

Two-day Communication Seminar, which includes sessions on presentation and heritage interpretation skills, self-evaluation, structuring commentaries and tailoring the tour to the audience
Guiding on a walk (town)
Guiding in a site (e.g. museum or art gallery, archaeological site, place of worship or sacred site, battlefield or others as per location)
Guiding on a Moving Vehicle
Tourism for All (Guiding people with special needs)
Optional modules on request

Applied Knowledge