Tour Guiding
Learn the skills to successfully start or grow a tour guiding business. Understand how to manage risks and safety and build your reputation with sound knowledge and skills necessary to gain customers’ trust as a Licenced Tour Guide.
Certificate of Achievement
Tour Guiding
Registration Fee: TT$1,445
Programme Delivery: Online
Contact Hours: 48
Time: 5pm-8pm
Days: Mon & Sat
Next Session: Aug 8, 2022
What you will gain from this course:
- Learn the skills to successfully start or grow a tour business
- Qualify to apply for a Tour Guide’s Licence
- Build your reputation and gain the trust of customers
- Discover how to deliver an unparalleled tourist experience
- Gain the sound knowledge to manage risks and safety
Course Description:
A practical course tailored to impart knowledge necessary for providing an unparalleled tourist experience through developing map reading skills and conducting tours. Upon completion you will receive a Certificate of Achievement and then individual can apply for a Tour Guide Licence through the Magistrate Court.
- Role of a Tour Guide
- How to Conduct a Tour
- Presentation and Speaking Skills
- Map Reading Skills
- Ethics, Conduct and Safety in Tourism Management
Questions? Please contact us at hazel.taylor@thti.edu.tt or 868-477-8910
Instructor: William Trim
Owner, Nature To and Fro Tours
Mr. William Trim is an experience tour guide and trainer he also the owner of Nature To and Fro Tours. He has been birding and tour guiding since 1985 training over 250 tour guides both locally and regionally including birders, taxi drivers and hikers. He obtained his Master of Science in Forestry from the University of Aberdeen. He was the Head of the Tobago Forestry Division and in 2019 he accompanied the National Geographic travellers’ crew on a tour of Tobago.
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