Do you enjoy walking around the city, visiting museums, and meeting new people?
Do you like to share your knowledge about places and historic buildings and sites?
If you have answered YES to these questions, this Certified Tourist Guide vocational education as is perfect for you!
Tourist guides offer visitors a friendly welcome to a particular place in an informative and entertaining manner about its cultural and natural heritage. Tourist guides must be prepared to answer questions from visitors, ranging from a specific topic of interest to a general historical question, and are as well responsible for the safety of visitors during guided tours. Tourist guides are experts in delivering practical information of destinations, assisting with reading maps, providing directions, and recommending local foods or other tourist attractions to enjoy while visiting a place.
Certified Tourist Guide is a vocational complete training that prepares you to work as a tourist guide for a company and as a self-employed, providing you with the tools to start with your own tourist guide business. This education also includes heritage interpretation, a feature lacking in other similar educations. After completing the course, you are ready to offer a group of visitors an informative and entertaining guided tour in a knowledgeable, friendly, inspiring, ethical, sustainable, and safe manner, with the goal of delivering a positive experience and a lasting memory to the visitor participating in your guided tours!
Certified Tourist Guide vocational education consists of three modules with several Power Point video presentations and written handouts, providing you with the knowledge about the tourist guide profession in theory and practice. Each module has two exercises or tasks, and one examination assignment. The examination assignments are in written, Power Point, and video presentation forms. All modules must be passed to complete the course and be certified.
The training covers about 12 weeks of full-time studies.
You can study at any study pace.
