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WFTGA Newsletter
March/April 2017
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SLOVENIA ITGD 2017
From Mateja Kregar Gliha
On 21st February, more than 800 participants in 25 cities
and towns across Slovenia joined tourist guides to
celebrate International Tourist Guide Day and to take part
in 56 different events, from guided walking tours to
introductory educational workshops. The celebrations
proved to be an extremely successful event.
The event organisers were associations, museums,
galleries, institutions and individual tourist guides whose
primary purpose was to present the importance of
qualified, well-educated and dynamic tourist guides and
their work to a local community. The content of the events
was extremely diverse. Some organisers opted for shorter,
classic guided tours, others focused on special sights so
often overlooked due to the lack of time during usual
tours, while yet others decided to present new tourism
products… As for the reactions of visitors to these events,
they were excellent and also inspiring. All of the visitors
acknowledged that they are living in a beautiful place, rich in cultural heritage. Unveiled stories brought to life many
a building past which people often hurry without even noticing it.
We are particularly pleased to see that applicants for international protection, both from the centres in Ljubljana
and Logatec, also took part in guided tours, which were translated into Farsi. We trust that their stay in a temporary
hometown will be much more enjoyable!
The celebrations received outstanding media coverage, both before and during the events. It is definitely national
and numerous local media that made the event even more popular with the public.
At the end of the day, new ideas and possibilities sprang up, and they will certainly enrich the celebrations of
International Tourist Guide Day in 2018.
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