Tour Guide

Visit exotic locations, meet fascinating people and give guided tours that exceed customers’ wildest expectations!

With emerit Tour Guide training, you will learn about passenger psychology, tour planning and costing, handling emergencies and much more. emerit-trained Tour Guides are skilled at thinking on their feet, develop extensive networking contacts, and playing a vital role in promoting the tourism industry.

With emerit Tour Guide training, you can study the following modules:

Tourism Awareness
Professionalism
General Knowledge
Presentation
Procedures
Problem Solving

Whatever your goals, emerit allows you to pick and choose the training options and resources that work for you!

Tour Guide Training Products:

emerit Tour Guide/Tour Director National Occupational Standards

Represent the collective expertise of Tour Guides and industry leaders across Canada.
Identify the most important essential skills you need to excel as a Tour Guide.
Outline the key elements of preparing and conducting memorable tours.
Learn the components of effective commentary, active listening, managing difficult situations and more.

emerit Tour Guide Workbook

Become a tourism leader out in the field with this fantastic self-study guide! It covers all of the knowledge you need to conduct effective small and large tours, while helping you learn a variety of valuable skills to help advance your tourism career.

Professional Certification:

Be recognized nationally as an exemplary Tour Guide with the Tourism Certified Professional (TCP) credential, and be counted amongst the elite in the industry! Your path is clear: pass an industry-endorsed knowledge exam and performance evaluation, and possess the required hours of relevant Tour Guide experience. You have the option of using one of the above emerit Tour Guide training options to prepare for certification or you can challenge the process if you feel prepared.