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About this course

In this self-paced course, tour guides and prospective tour guides will explore the essential skills that you need to succeed in tour guiding. This course will prepare you to talk about sensitive topics and build up intercultural competencies.

Who is this course for? 
The course is intended for tour guides and prospective tour guides and anyone interested in the topic.

What will you learn? 

  • You will learn how to talk about popular cultures, politics and religion, history, daily life and taboos
  • You will gain intercultural competencies for learning and understanding
  • You will get practical tips for enhancing intercultural understanding on tour

How much time will you need to invest?
It will take you about 1 hour to complete this course.

Keywords: Tour guiding, skills, intercultural competencies, intercultural understanding

Course Certificate: The platform will automatically generate a certificate of participation and an Open Badge once you have finished all modules of the course and passed the questions in the assessment with 80%. If you would like to learn more about Open Badges, please click here.


Course Developers:   Commissioned by GIZ Sector Project Cooperation with the Private Sector - Component Sustainable Development through Tourism. Developed by mascontour, TYPE-C Productions and Fischer, Knoblauch & Co.

Course Contact: Should you have questions regarding the course, please reach out to the atingi support team via the helpdesk.

Content License: CC-BY-SA 4.0

Publication Date:  30.12.2021

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