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List of THETA Accredited Tourist Guide Training Providers (Public Information)

This is a list of all tourist guide training providers in the Western Cape that hve been accredited by the Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Education and Training Authority (THETA). >

Tourist Guide Of The Year Competition: Winners 2005 (News)

22 April 2005

The winners of this year's Western Cape Provincial Tour Guide of the Year Competition were announced on Friday, 22 April 2005 at an event at the Cape Milner Hotel in Tamboerskloof, Cape Town. This competition was designed to seek out that special tourist guide, who, ... >

Registration as a Tourist Guide (Service)

If you would like to be contracted or employed as a tour guide by a company, close corporation or tour operator, you must be registered with the Tourist Guide Registration Office of the Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Western Cape. >

Finding a Tourist Guide (Link)

If you are looking for a registered tour guide to show you around the Western Cape, you can search the Tour Guide database to find the perfect tour guide to match your needs. >

Contacts for the Tourist Guide Registration Office (Link)

Contact the Tourist Guide Registration Office to register, or re-register as a guide in the Western Cape. >

Have you asked your Tourist Guide for their Card and Badge? (Public Information)

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This brochure gives a summary of the requirements for a legal tourist guide in South Africa, the regulations for tour operators and tourist guides, and key points from the tourist guide Code of Conduct and Ethics. >

Western Cape Tourist Guide Newsletter (Newsletter / Magazine)

Tourist Guide Registration (Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Provincial Government of the Western Cape)

Tourist Guide Code of Conduct and Ethics (Public Information)

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Tourist guides must sign the Tourist Guide Code of Conduct and Ethics as part of their official registration with the Department. >

Tourism Second Amendment Act (Act)

(File type: pdf)

No. 70 of 2000

Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (The Government of South Africa)

This Act provides for the training and registration of tourist guides. It also provides for a code of conduct and ethics for tourist guides. It also regulates the procedure for lodging complaints, makes provision for the endorsement of certain registers and criminalises certain conduct. >

Tourism and Hospitality SETA (Theta) (Link)

Theta aims to: develop the skills of workers in the sector; increase the levels of investment in education and training in the tourism and hospitality sector; encourage employers in the sector to train their employees, provide opportunities for work experience and employ new staff; encourage workers to participate in learnership and other training programmes; improve the employment prospects of disadvantaged people; ensure the quality of education and training in and for the sector workplaces; assist work seekers to find work and employers to find qualified employees; encourage providers to deliver education and training in and for the sector workplaces; cooperate with the South African Qualifications Authority. >

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