Building Tourist Guide Skill and Knowledge

The Improved Training for Tour Guides effort started in November last year and runs through May 2010.



This program, managed by Suna Evran of CDP, focuses on several specialized areas of guide expertise.





The courses are led by senior guides Richard Skinner and Iris Barry of the U.K.

The overall program goals:

• More specialized & professionalized Tourist Guides
• Increase tourist guides’ capacity to match the international standards
• Increase interest in the TCC tourism product
  
• Create better tourist experience
• Word of mouth – more tourists in TCC

Working with 4 groups of 12 guides, the emphasis is on Medieval Cities and Nature tourism. The training is hands-on with numerous on-site practice as well as video feedback.




In the current phase of the program, a team of guides has been selected for a train-the-trainer course.

Ultimately, they will be able to work in the future to improve the skills of the more than 400 guides working in northern Cyprus.