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 NFTGA Contact Information:

 Esther Banike CTG, President
 (Member of the Chicago Tour-Guide
 Professionals Association)

 1127 Central Avenue
 Downers Grove, IL 60516
 E-Mail: GoChicagirl@aol.com

Other Organizations

U.S. Contacts
As part of the on-going process to reach out to guide organizations across the United States, the NFTGA-USA has made contact with guides in many other areas of the U.S. Our contacts with guides include those working in Atlanta, Cape Cod, Charleston, Denver, Gettysburg, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Napa Valley, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Puerto Rico, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Silicon Valley, St. Louis and Tucson - just to name a few.

If you know of any U.S. guide organizations that are not members of the NFTGA-USA and that may be interested in finding out more about the NFTGA, OR if you are interested in starting a guide association in your locality, please contact Esther Banike by clicking on her name.

WFTGA
The NFTGA is a member of the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations or WFTGA.

The WFTGA was formed in 1985 and serves as the Global Forum for Tourist Guides. Membership to the WFTGA is open to non-profit making, independent associations of professional tourist guides from any country in the world. The WFTGA has paid-up members from 43 countries and 73 associations; and is in contact with many more organizations and individuals. The WFTGA literally represents tens of thousands of professional tourist guides on diverse continents.

The WFTGA maintains a website, which can be found at www.wftga.org. A listing of WFTGA member organizations may be found on their website. They also publish an online newsletter accessible through their website, called "Guidelines Internation@l". The WFTGA offers training courses for guides and guide trainers.

"The Hand of Friendship

and the Hand of Guidance

stretched across the World"


International Tourist Guide Day

An initiative of the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations, International Tourist Guide Day (ITGD) is held on or around the 21st of February each year. In 1990, when it was held for the first time, 15 countries participated.

This special day is a public relations event par excellence, drawing the attention of local authorities, fellow citizens and the media to the quality and value of professional tourist guides. Each member country contributes to the success of the day in its own way: coach companies have contributed complimentary coaches, while attractions and museums have opened their doors without charge.

Since the inception of ITGD, local tour guides have underscored their professionalism in an ever-growing number of countries by giving complimentary tours of their local communities, conducting tours for the disabled or disadvantaged persons, children, industry partners, officials and the general public.

Each year the WFTGA acknowledges an increasing awareness of and a growing contribution by both regional and national governments to the International Tourist Guide Day.

WFTGA Conferences

The WFTGA holds an international conference every two years.

CLICK HERE to read about the WFTGA conference in the article written
by Boston Tour Guide, Yvette Kaplan
.

CLICK HERE to read about the WFTGA conference held in Bali.

Planning on attending the 14th WFTGA conference?
It's being held in Estonia, January 30th - February 4th, 2011?
The conference theme will be “Culture as a Unifying Guide.”
For more information, please visit http://wftga2011.konverents.eu/.

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