The next public Gauteng Snake Awareness and Venomous Snake Handling Course (happens on a monthly basis)takes place at Heia Safari Ranch in Muldersdrift on 30th of July 2016.

Dear Friends and Colleagues of WFTGA Finally I have news to publish – and it is good news too! It cannot be any secret that the signing of the Vienna Treaty with Iran in January released once more critics of WFTGA General Assembly decision for our 2017 convention; the almost immediate renewal of more sanctions swept euphoric ideas to ground and lead to an almost paralytic standstill. Now, Executive Board can give you basics of our next convention in Iran:

Tourist guiding in Gauteng now falls under Gauteng Department of Economic Development (GDED) and not GTA anymore.Here is a training schedule for uplifting your training. Foreign language Training and Tourist Guide RPL

You are cordially invited to the Gauteng Guides Association Annual General Meeting witch will be held at the Ditsong Pioneer Museum on Tuesday 28 June 2016 at 10:00.

Dear Colleague, Those of you who were in Prague will remember me with the Iranian Federation of Tourist Guides team. My name is Hussein.I will be your contact for your questions as well as for the invitation letters which you need to apply for your visas to travel to Iran for the 17th World Federation of Tourist Guides Associations (WFTGA) Convention in Iran-January 2017.

The National Department of Tourism (NDT) is holding a series of provincial consultation workshops on the Draft Regulations for Tourist Guiding. The draft regulations wer published for public comments on 15 April 2016 and is open for sixty (60) days.