LICENSED TOURIST GUIDE AND TOUR DIRECTOR? YES, PLEASE

Always make sure that your tourist guide and your tour director/tour leader are licensed. Licensed guides and tour directors have a badge, a license, reporting the following details:

-Name and surname of the guide/tour leader

-His/her picture

-Guiding territory (tourist guides only)

-Foreign languages he/she is licensed to work with

-Authority (Municipality, Local Police) that released the license

Tourist guide and tour director are two different and complementary professions, and they both require a specific license as it is established and regulated by law. Anyone who does not have this license and tries and work abusively is liable to a salty fine by the local police. This is meant to protect the final users, the tourists, in order they get a quality service.

Some (like me) possess both the license as tourist guide and the license as tourdirector/tour leader and can therefore practise both professions.