Course description
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.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
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 is perfect for you!
Outcome / Qualification etc.
After completing the course, the student will:
- Be able to inform visitors about the destination based on basic protocol rules.
- Be able to guide and assist tourists during their visits with the help of actual communication tools and strategies.
- Be able to guide visitors based on an understanding of the local cultural and natural heritage.
- Know about different art and cultural heritage, tell about local stories and inform about facts during the visit/ guided tour.
- Be able to guide in an adequate manner in accordance with current protocols regarding safety and based on knowledge of activities and to prevent risk factors.
- Be able to handle unforeseen events, complaints and solve related problems.
- Be able to start an own tourist guide business and to work independently as a tourist guide.
Assessment of the student's knowledge is based on written assignments/ oral presentations on each module (module). The student must pass all modules to complete the entire course and receive a certificate.
Training Course Content
MODULE 1
- Introduction to Tourism and guiding
- Tourist guide profession
- Tourist behaviour
- Tourist typologies
- Definitions in tourism
- Tourism, travel & hospitality
- Tourist attractions
- Tourist destinations
- Tourism impacts
- Eco-sustainable tourism Sweden
- Tourist destination Sweden
MODULE 2
- Tour guiding in practise
- Work overview
- Guide assignments
- Information
- Information search & information sources
- Presentation of information
- Communication
- Communication applied to the tourist guide profession
- Guide techniques
- Safety, security & risk prevention
- Heritage
- Heritage interpretation
- Heritage interpretation process
- Storytelling
- The tourist guide as heritage interpreter
- Preparing for heritage interpretation talks
MODULE 3
- Tour guide & Entrepreneur
- Guided tours
- Market research
- Marketing research
- Business development & strategies
- Production of tourist guide products and services
Course delivery details
The training covers about 12 weeks of full-time studies.
You can study at any study pace.
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Expenses
The fee for the professional training course Certified Tourist Guide is 1246 GBP (415.5/module) Or 1461 EURO (487/module). All fees include VAT.
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