The Nelson Mandela Bay Tour Guides Association

About the Nelson Mandela Bay Tour Guides Association 

The Constitution is aimed at directing the structure, administration and control of the Membership of the Tourist Guides of Eastern Cape Region as well as its continued and ongoing professional development. A professional Tourist Guide is defined as a person who has acquired, either through formal Training, or a combination of formal training and appropriate life skills, relevant information about the geography, history, cultures and the life of different communities within a locality. This should be supplemented by ahigh level of interpersonal skills, together with a broader, mature knowledge of current events, and everyday social issues. The Guide must be able to share these confidently with visitors, whilst acting as a cultural broker displaying appropriate competencies, values and attitudes to present a balanced and holistic view of the host location, the country in general, and its people, that benefits both the hosts and the visitors. Successful completion of a recognized Guide Training program, is a compulsory prerequisite of membership. 

THE NELSON MANDELA BAY TOUR GUIDES ASSOCIATION - NMBTGA

ABOUT THE NELSON MANDELA BAY TOUR GUIDES ASSOCIATION - NMBTGA

Membership of the Tourist Guides of Eastern Cape Region as well as its continued and ongoing professional development. A professional Tourist Guide is defined as a person who has acquired, either through formal Training, or a combination of formal training and appropriate life skills, relevant information about the geography, history, cultures and the life of different communities within a locality. This should be supplemented by ahigh level of interpersonal skills, together with a broader, mature knowledge of current events, and everyday social issues. The Guide must be able to share these confidently with visitors, whilst...

BECOME A NMBTGA MEMBER

MEMBERSHIP. 

Application for membership shall be in the manner and form as determined by the Committee.

Membership shall compromise Full Members, Trainee Members, Honorary Members and Associate Members.

The qualifications for membership are as follows:

Full Membership

• The committee shall consider all applications and decline or award full membership to legally registered Tourist Guides in accordance with the criteria determined by it.
• Every legally Registered Tourist Guide who is a fully paid up member of The Association shall have full voting rights.

Trainee Membership

• Any person who is in the process of training to become a legally Registered Tour Guide, through an...

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