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WFTGA Newsletter
March/April 2017
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INTERNATIONAL TOURIST GUIDE DAY 2017 (ITGD)
ITGD was decided by WFTGA in 1989 during the 3rd
International Convention in Cyprus. It was realised
that enhancing the image of the Tourist Guide
worldwide would help the profession. Marking our
WFTGA Foundation Day in 1985, we showcase the
skills and professionalism of Tourist Guides world-
wide on or around 21 February every year. This is an
opportunity for our WFTGA members to celebrate
our work at local level, highlighting our
communication and presentation skills, our ethos and
standards, our aims for mutual cultural
understanding and sustainable tourism. Our
association members and our individual members
energetically plan and publicise events and tours for this important date for Tourist Guides. It is about us specifically
– not the whole tourism industry, so it is special to us all. Below we have a compilation of the contributions
received through the Facebook page and personally. Thank you to all and well done!
AUSTRIA ITGD 2017
From Felicitas Wressnig
The Vienna Tourist Guides Association had promotional tours in
five museums of the National Library plus two outside walks:
altogether 11.000 (!) individuals took one of the variation or
multiple of our guided tours!
150 guides were working full day and we all were completely
exhausted at the end of the day....
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