Only until January 18 – Register now for virtual participation in the international guide meeting
Dear Guide colleagues, I hope you are as excited as I am as we look back on a successful 2023 that has almost brought us back to our normal level of leadership! Let us now look forward to 2024 with anticipation, because exciting events await us. One of the absolute highlights will be the WFTGA […]
Exciting insights into the world of real estate
As part of the anniversary year “50 years of JLL Germany”, there is an extraordinary opportunity to experience Frankfurt am Main from a completely different perspective. As a leading real estate company, JLL invites you to join me, Sebastian Frankenberger, and city guide Mikael Horstmann on an exclusive, discursive city tour through fascinating Frankfurt, focusing […]
Tourism training in Frankfurt
We at Tourismus Training are currently in Frankfurt and have the privilege of developing a very special project on the subject of high-rise buildings. Everything about guided tours in high-rise buildings. What is your opinion on this? How would you organize such guided tours? Focus on history or culture or urban history? What do you […]
Is augmented reality (AR) the future of city tours?
I’m currently in Tel Aviv to gather ideas for an augmented reality city tour project. In Israel, they are far ahead of us technologically in this respect. The graffiti tour from https://tlvnights.com is simply awesome! Extraordinary graffiti with AR brings the city’s exciting history to life. In addition, there is really great storytelling with finely […]
Lecturer on the island of Mainau
Yesterday I had the pleasure of giving a talk to the tour guides on the island of Mainau. The focus was on the needs of groups who want to explore the island of flowers with all their senses. I was later able to attend further training sessions, for example on the subject of sequoia trees, […]
Travel to Germany – current trends in guided tours
I’ve just packed my suitcase – I’m off to Germany for several exciting lectures and workshops! Among other things, on the topic of “current trends in guided tours”. For our “Linz changes” example, I have virtual reality glasses, battery-powered projectors and augmented reality headsets, as well as a Linzer Torte in the shape of a […]
German Tour Guide Day in Kassel
The 6th German Tour Guide Conference DGFT followed by the 29th Annual General Meeting of the Federal Association of Tour Guides in Germany took place on 03. and March 04, 2023 in Kassel. I was able to attend and take part in some exciting tours of Kassl and listen to some great presentations. Topics included […]
Training to become a certified cycle tour guide
The market for guided bike groups is booming! During the pandemic, many coach operators have bought a bicycle trailer. Many guests own an e-bike and want to get to know the country and its people. However, there are too few bike tour guides who are familiar with e-bike groups, cultural enjoyment cycling, theory and technology. […]
We are looking for reinforcement for our office team!
Assistant to the management / secretariat in Vienna and Remote We are a young/young-at-heart startup team with flat hierarchies and varied areas of activity. As a service provider for tourist services, we mainly manage river cruise ships along the Danube. We are also active as a tour provider, educational institute with training and education in […]
What is the focus of guided tours – the knowledge, the object, the guide or the guest?
On Saturday, I was allowed to give a lecture on the topic “Needs of guests” at the 20th Bavarian Guest Guide Day, which is organized every year by the Munich Guest Guide Association. As a subtitle I deliberately chose, ” What is the focus – The knowledge, the object, the guide or the guest”. In […]
Hybrid world association meeting from 7.-10. February in Madrid
The World Association of Guides (WFTGA) conference is normally held every 2 years. Last year the conference was postponed due to Corona. Unfortunately, it cannot take place in Serbia as originally planned this year either. The board decided at short notice to hold a hybrid event in Madrid. From February 7th to 10th there is […]
virtual 19th Bavarian tour guide day from Tegernsee
The winter months are always a good opportunity to exchange ideas with tour guides from all over Bavaria. However, due to the current situation and after a forced break of one year, the organizers of the Bavarian Tourist Guide Day have opted for a virtual format this time. We at Tourismus-Training have made our own […]
Course to become a tourist guide in Austria starts on September 24, 2021
There is a new training course from Tourismus-Training in Austria. A modular, mostly online, practical course with optimal preparation for the proficiency test by experienced lecturers for the theoretical subjects, active guides and former graduates of the last few years, as well as outstanding partners in the tourism industry. Ideally coordinated as a part-time course. […]
Guide Week from 10. – May 11, 2021
The New York Guide Association is organizing a virtual congress for tourist guides: 10+ educational events with 45+ well-known speakers from all over the world of tourism Keynote by Evita Turquoise Robinson, Founder of the Nomadness Travel Tribe and one of the most influential and inspiring women in the travel industry today Opportunity to participate […]
Webinar recording: Guest tours 2021 – Requirements for a new start
This week we were allowed to take care of the technical support of the webinar “Guest tours 2021 – Requirements for a new start” for the BVGD, the Federal Association of Tourist Guides in Germany. It was a very exciting event with top-class speakers. The recording is now online on the BVGD YouTube channel and […]
WFTGA | The virtual conference
In the last few days (and nights) we have been working intensively on the website of the first virtual conference of the WFTGA, the world association of us guest/tourist guides. It’s finally online and you can register: virtual.wftga.com Register now, as there are only a limited number of 500 places and over 400 have already […]
Online congress for guided tours and cultural mediation
February 28, 2021 from 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm Due to Covid-19, we all had to focus more on video conferences and online seminars. Therefore, this congress would like to ask the question of how we can use the momentum of digitization to advance digitization around guided tours and cultural mediation even after the pandemic. […]
World day of the tourist guides – a few thoughts about it
Last Sunday, February 21st, was the World Day of Tourist Guides/Tourist Guides. We would like to use this occasion to publish a text by Linz Tourism Director Prof. Georg Steiner. He thinks very critically but future-oriented about our industry. We are currently working with him on a project on the subject of experiences based on […]
free WEBINAR: Into the new age for guided groups
“Change in the Tourism Industry. How can technology help get through these difficult times?” The discussion fields of city, bus and cruise tourism are particularly exciting for guest and tourist guides. Our Managing Director Sebastian Frankenberger will discuss as a panelist and representative of DonauGuides GmbH together with Urlich Berger (Founder & CEO Guiding Group), […]
New course for tourist guides in Austria
There is a new training course from Tourismus-Training in Austria. A modular, mostly online, practical course with optimal preparation for the proficiency test by experienced lecturers for the theoretical subjects, active guides and former graduates of the last few years, as well as outstanding partners in the tourism industry. Ideally coordinated as a part-time course. […]
Discussion about the future for tourist guides / tourist guides
Our webinar on August 31, 2020 was a success with over 600 live participants from 57 countries. Important results of the presentations and discussions were: Be open to new technologies and opportunities through digitization Work out new fields, eg develop tour ideas for locals increased cooperation between the guides Thank you very much for the […]
challenges and opportunities
2020 has been a difficult year for tourist guides around the world. In many countries, guides are only allowed to lead under strict conditions. But are guests booking a guided tour at all at the moment? Is there a second wave with new restrictions, travel warnings and lockdowns? We want to analyze the situation with […]
Group Leadership Audio Apps – 1/1 Trainings
28.07-30.07. 2020; 11:00, 13:00, 15:00 CET (Vienna time zone) over the last few months we have already introduced you to many audio guiding app providers with our free webinars. Now it’s time to go one step further! Therefore we offer 1/1 meetings with the developers at the end of July. In these training sessions, we […]
In 15 minutes to your own website with Google
Our next webinar next Tuesday 16.6.2020 from 16:00 – 18:00 h Are you thinking about how to best use the time right now? If you don’t have your own website yet, we have just the thing for you. Content development is important. But more importantly, that you can be found online that your photo and […]
Webinar recording and presentations
Thank you for attending yesterday’s webinar on Tour Guides Audio Apps and Systems! We were very happy about the large number of participants (over 600 spectators) and the speakers from different countries and were also glad that the technology held up. Thanks to our assistants, we were able to actively take care of the chat […]
