Qualified tour guide - examination for the tour guide certificate in Bremen

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The professional tour guide is the product core of bus and group tourism.

The seminar "Qualified Tour Guide" on February 8th and 9th, 2020 conveyed expert knowledge from daily practice and prepared for the examination for the tour guide certificate of the BTW and the University of Applied Sciences Bremen.

The speaker Dieter Gauf showed the 24 participants from Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania and Hungary professional tips for the organisation and the methodical-didactic design of the trip as well as country and tourism knowledge. For the first time this year, the experienced tourism expert, lawyer Ralf Wiesehöfer, provided the basics of travel law and complaint handling.

For the 19th time already, the Bremen University of Applied Sciences (HSB) passed the tour guide examinations of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry, Berlin, and the HSB. 32 participants - HSB students from the international Bachelor's degree programmes Applied Leisure Science and Tourism Management and the international Master's degree programme Leisure and Tourism as well as practitioners from Germany, Italy and Hungary - presented themselves to the examination board. The board consists of lecturers from the international degree programmes and experts from the tourism industry. The aim of the examination is to obtain the tour guide card and the tour guide certificate, the first qualification certificate for tour guides in Germany. The HSB has already issued around 600 of these certificates to tour guides.

In Germany, there is neither a recognised job description nor any corresponding professional entry requirements for the field of travel guiding. The tour guide certificate of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry and the HSB promotes the quality of the tour guide service by creating objective guidelines for the tour guide's field of activity. Among other things, the tour guide certificate is intended to help German tour guides in other European countries to avoid possible hindrances from authorities.

In order to obtain the tour guide certificate, knowledge of the sights, art, culture, history, geography and politics of the country of travel must be proven. In addition, there are the areas of organisation such as quality assurance and control, tourism studies, travel law and especially didactics/methodology of tour guiding.

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