On the occasion of the World Day of Tourist Guides:inside the Styrian guides offer exciting and interesting tours on Saturday, March 4, 2023.
The tours are free of charge for everyone. Voluntary donations are made to the organization “Steirer helfen Steirern”. Registration deadline: is Friday, March 3, 2023, midnight.

You can find all the detailed information and the possibility to register at the following link:
World Day of Tourist Guides 2022 Styria – Overview – WKO.at

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The market for guided bike groups is booming!
During the pandemic, many bus operators purchased 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 know about e-bike groups, cultural enjoyment cycling, theory and technology.
On March 24-26, we offer a course in Vienna to train as a certified bike tour guide*in.
In this hands-on course, we’ll teach you the essentials of being a bike tour guide. You’ll also get lots of tips for everyday bike guiding, like useful apps, what should go in your gear bag, how to properly set up a bike, and how to make small repairs.
In addition, we work out the structure of day tours based on the most important Austrian river bike paths (Enns, Inn, Drau, Ybbs and Mur).

We are looking forward to your registration!
More info on our website: https://guide-training.com/produkt/zertifizierter-radreiseleiter

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The 34th World Guided Tour Day will take place in cooperation with the Austrian Gallery Belvedere on two days and three different locations.

Free guided tours and lectures including free admission to the famous Vienna Belvedere on February 19, 2023!
In the Upper Belvedere, the guided tour “Weird Birds” in the Picture Gallery offers an entertaining search for remarkable characters; as a complement, there will be a guided tour in the famous Marble Hall. At the Lower Belvedere, a guided tour illuminates the 300-year art history of the Belvedere.
The online registration, as well as further information, can be found at:

https://www.guides-in-vienna.at/welttag/

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As Austria Guides, we have a certain responsibility with regard to remembrance culture and, in addition to informative tours of Hartheim Castle and Mauthausen Concentration Camp, we also give tours in Vienna, about Jewish culture.
Currently, a particularly exciting performance is taking place at the Circus of Knowledge at the Johannes Kepler University, where the question is being addressed of how memory culture functions when there are no more contemporary witnesses.
The next appointment is on 11.02.2023 from 16:00 to 17:30.
4 pm: Ten witnesses sajnen mir gewesn | Circus of Knowledge (jku.at)

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Assistance 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 tourism, event management with technology of live streaming, as well as tourism consulting. Your employment will be with DonauGuides GmbH.

At the moment we have 2-3 virtual assistants in the team besides me as the boss and my (business) partner. We want to combine these into one part-time position. The new part-time position will oversee the back office of all of the above. So mainly communication with customers, project assistance and assistance to the management, maintenance of offers, websites, social media channels.
We are very smart and digitally positioned (Basecamp project management software and a lot of automation in the accounting area). Accordingly, this is a position in an up-and-coming StartUp with a flat hierarchy and many fields of activity. Of course you get a Macbook and Iphone.

Who are we looking for?

Part-time employee for 20-25h per month
Secretariat/back office for tourist service provider
Assistance at events
On site in the office in Vienna and home office

Your tasks:

Email and telephone response
Classification of freelancers
Invoicing and billing
Quotation
Assistance to the management
Office organization
Adding content to web pages
Support of social media platforms
Documentation / summary / processing of seminars and trainings at customers’ sites
Send newsletters with online tools like Mail Chimp
Dealing with online stores such as Regiondo, Woocommerce
Accuracy and diligence in everyday office life
Self-organization

Your prerequisites:

Very good knowledge of German (actually native language, at least C1)
Very good English skills (at least C1)
Above-mentioned language skills in writing (spell-checked!) and orally
Ability to quickly familiarize oneself with tasks and conduct research
Very good handling of email, all office and web applications
Handling of accounting software (SeVdesk, Lexoffice, BMD, Zistemo)
Knowledge of correct invoicing
Enjoy and have knowledge of major social media platforms (uploading and creating posts).
Working with Zoom and Teams
Willingness to work in the Apple world or learn the ropes quickly

Payment according to collective agreement, as well as according to qualification and experience.

You are still interested? Cool, then you fit in with us!
Application form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRay_BY92WQ-HaSYeHIJBF59ZGxzSFM6BbzDE16A5bzg98qw/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Our webinar on 8/31/2020 went off successfully with over 600 live attendees from 57 countries.

Key outcomes of the presentations and discussions were:

Be open to new technologies and opportunities through digitization
Develop new fields, e.g. tour ideas for locals
Increased cooperation between guides

Thank you very much for the numerous participation and the strong interest in the topic “Future for tour guides/foreign guides”.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Alushca Ritchie from the World Association and Maren Richter from the German Tourist Guide Association for their reports on activities of the associations in the past months and their commitment especially in these difficult times of the pandemic.

Special thanks also go to our panelists and tourism experts Burghart Lell (Avalon Waterways) and Dieter Hardt-Stremayr (Graz Tourism) for their presentations and assessment of the situation as well as the future of our industry.

All participants of the webinar will find the presentations and the recording of the discussion in our members area, the access data for this were already sent with the registration.

If you were unable to attend and would like to view the webinar recording, you can access our members area free of charge by clicking on the following link:

https://members.tourismus-training.com/members-area/challenges-and-chances/?lang=en

Feel free to forward this link to colleagues.

It is important to us that we guides worldwide stay in contact, exchange ideas and inform each other. Motivating each other is especially important in these times. The participation and the “rewatch” of this webinar are again free of charge for you. Even if we do not calculate our own working time, we still incur costs for online technology (Zoom). If you would like to support us with a donation, we are grateful for any amount.

We look forward to next virtual meetings!
All the best and stay healthy.

Sebastian & Martha & Constantin
Team Guide Training

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