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Start your membership now and get instant access to a wealth of tools and services curated especially for tourist guides like you. Don’t miss out on essential support and protection for your guiding business from less than £1 a day. Apply to join us today 

The British Guild of Tourist Guides is a thriving membership community of highly skilled and professional Blue and Green Badge Tourist Guides. We have a network of over 1200 members who live and work in London and every region of the UK.

At a time when professional guides are much in demand, now is the time to join a community who share a common bond; a passion for excellence as a professional guide, an appreciation of the benefits of learning from the skills and knowledge of colleagues across the UK and having a strong voice within the tourism sector.

Whether you’re newly qualified or have been a Blue or Green Badge Tourist Guide for sometime, our benefits offer for full members is geared towards achieving all the essentials for freelance tourist guides such as yourself.

Essential support from day one

Our benefits for Full Members of the British Guild of Tourist Guides are as follows:

• Job referrals through our Find a Guide facility
• Instant online presence on the Guild website
• Public Liability and Personal Accident Insurance
  
• Annual illustrative fees and term & conditions guidance
• A fully staffed office which is open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
• Marketing you and your work through our social media channels 365 days a year
• Two annual programmes of low cost Continuous Professional Development courses
• Bi-annual business development conferences  – Guided2Growth
• Regular resources for your guiding business
• Weekly communications and alerts via email
• Keeping you informed of the latest tourism trends and policies through research 
• A Site Liaison network keeping you informed of site rules and events
• Tourism sector connected through our monthly attendance at UKInbound events and through the monthly Travel Trade Guide newsletter
• Regionally connected to our network of regional associations in London and across the UK
• Internationally connected via membership to the FEG and the WFTGA
• Welfare support through the Guild’s Benevolent Fund
• Networking & social events keeping you connected with each other and tour operators
• Special discount offers exclusive to members

Let’s chat about membership
Undecided? Speak to our friendly team about how you could make the most of your membership for your business. Get in touch now! Email Helen on guild@britainsbestguides.org.uk