The Ministry of Tourism has officially certified 804 new tour guides and unveiled the new national identification card, produced in collaboration withthe State Printing Office and Mint. The announcement came on Saturday, a symbolic day for…
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Egyptian authorities have arrested a tour guide in Giza after a video circulated on social media showing the man tracing marks on the outer covering of a pyramid to illustrate explanations to a group of tourists. According to a report by…
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Following the death of Giovanna Maria Giomarino, the tour guide who died at the Colosseum while she was working, the president of AGTA Associazione Guide Turistiche Abilitate, Isabella Ruggiero, published a lengthy post on the…
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Tragedy at work: late afternoon on August 19, a tour guide died while giving a guided tour to a group of tourists at the Colosseum. The 56-year-old woman, Giovanna Maria Giomarino, succumbed to an illness while she was working, collapsed…
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The new examination program for the National Tourist Guide qualification, published by the Ministry of Tourism in recent days, has raised concerns from Italian Tourist Guides (GTI), a trade association that has been critical of the overall…
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AGTA, the Association of Licensed Tourist Guides, has expressed strong disapproval of the official syllabus for the professional certification exam published by the Ministry of Tourism. The reason for the protest concerns in particular the…
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The time is approaching for the national competition for tour guides, which will implement the reform of the tour guide profession as outlined in Law 190 of Dec. 13, 2023, which established the new national list of tour guides at the…
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In a ruling issued on May 15, the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio granted the precautionary petition filed byANGT, theNational Association of Tourist Guides, regarding the call for new guide qualification. The decision marks a…
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