Essential questions to recognized an OFFICIAL TOUR GUIDE 

Not everyone how presents themselves well is also true professionals or reliable people.

So, before adhering to a guided tour proposal, it is best to ask a few questions:

- Are you an official guide?
- What is your licence number?
- Are you a tourist guide, tour leader, interpreter, animator, mountain guide or nature guide?
- Are you graduated?
- How many years have you been practising?
- Is the tourist guide your profession or do you carry out this activity only in your free time?

Then you will know whether you are dealing with a qualified professional or with someone who is not authorized to carry out the activity.

An unauthorized guide may be as good as a licensed guide or even nicer, but the fact remains that he or she has not done the necessary training and does not pay taxes. Here is a sketch of the Official Tourist Guide:

Official Tourist Guides must:
- Have a university degree
- Have passed an Tour Guide exam
- Have obtained the relevant licence
- Display a licence. Therefore, not all those who display a badge are in possession of a valid and official document; often this is a membership card of a Cultural Association.
 
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