World day of tourist guides:inside Styria
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 […]
Training to become a certified bike tour guide
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 […]
WORLD DAY OF THE FEMALE LEADERS in Vienna on 19.2
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 […]
World Day of Tourist Guides on February 21
On the occasion of the “International Tourist Guide Day” of the “World Federation of Tourist Guide Assosiations”(WFTGA), which takes place every year on February 21, the Austrian tourist guides organize a colorful program of mostly free guided tours in the various provinces. More detailed information is yet to be published for each federal state individually. […]
Theater Performance Contemporary Witnesses in Linz
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 […]
We are looking for reinforcement for our office team!
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 […]
Challenges and opportunities
2020 was a difficult year for tour guides worldwide. In many countries, guides are only allowed to lead under strict conditions. But do the guests even book a tour at the moment? Is a second wave coming with renewed restrictions, travel warnings and lockdowns? We want to analyze the situation with association leaders of tourist […]
Discussion about the future for tour guides / tourist guides
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 […]
World day of the tourist guides – a few thoughts about it
Last Sunday, February 21, was the World Day of Guides/Guides. We would like to use this occasion to publish a text by Linz Tourism Director Prof. Georg Steiner. In doing so, he thinks about our industry in a very critical but forward-looking way. We are currently working with him on a project about experiences based […]
New course for tourist guide in Austria
There is a new training course of tourism training in Austria. Modular, mostly online, a practical course with an optimal preparation for the qualification exam by experienced lecturers for the theoretical subjects, active guides and former graduates of the last years, as well as outstanding partners in the tourism industry. Ideally matched as a part-time […]
