--- title: Tour Guide Skills description: This topic covers the techniques of professional storytelling, group management, and public speaking for tour leaders. Learners will understand how to design engaging itineraries, manage group safety, and deliver informative historical or cultural commentary. category: sports-recreation subcategory: travel-and-leisure difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/tour-guide-skills --- # Tour Guide Skills This topic covers the techniques of professional storytelling, group management, and public speaking for tour leaders. Learners will understand how to design engaging itineraries, manage group safety, and deliver informative historical or cultural commentary. ## Available Resources 2 Websites ## Websites ### 1. World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations The global federation of tourist guide associations, an NGO partner of UNESCO, publishing the Code of Guiding Practice, running international trainer certification and continuous professional development courses, and maintaining directories of certified guides across 87 member associations. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://wftga.org/ **Tags:** tour-guiding, certification, tourism, professional-standards, training ### 2. tourguides.org TourGuides.org is an online resource hub for tour guides, offering practical articles and guides on interpretation, tour planning, customer service, safety, and career development. It provides tips, best practices, and tools to help both aspiring and seasoned guides improve their skills and lead engaging tours. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://tourguides.org **Tags:** websites, hospitality-tourism, tourism-industry ## Podcasts ### 1. The Tour Guide Podcast **Author:** Rory and Mark Come on a journey around the world with two Irish-Australian Teachers turned Tour Guides. Over 100 countries in 15 years these lads have backpacked and guided every corner of the planet. They will focus on one country each episode explaining the must do’s, the tourist trap’s and the hidden melons through unique, bizarre and often eccentric travel stories. Jump on board and enjoy the ride! **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dontmissthebus **Tags:** tour-guiding, travel, destinations, storytelling, tourism ### 2. Travel with Purpose **Author:** Dave Laton This podcast is designed to keep Sojourners and friends informed, entertained, and inspired as together we travel with a purpose.  National Evangelism With Sojourners Mission (Sojourners), a mission of the Burleson Church of Christ, Burleson, TX.   **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://travelwithapurpose.buzzsprout.com ### 3. The Hospitality Podcast **Author:** Mario C. Bauer, Florian Schneider, Axel Weber & Dr. Tillman Bardt The Newmorrow PodCast is more than a podcast — it's a platform for open dialog on the future of our business, a platform for those building what doesn’t exist yet. Here, we share and embrace our passion for the hospitality industry, but we won’t romanticize the journey. We ask the tough questions, confront uncomfortable truths, and prepare for a future that resists easy answers. We believe that the tougher and wilder times become, the more openly, honestly and humanely people need to talk to each other and act together. We believe, openness, togetherness, and truthfulness should also be cornerstones of a p... **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.new-morrow.com **Tags:** hospitality, tourism, industry-trends, leadership, interviews --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/tour-guide-skills