Three Iloilo City tour guides are currently taking part in a four-month training with the Association of Iloilo DOT-Accredited Travel and Tour Operators, which will run until January.
“This will not only benefit the participants but as well as promote the rich culture and heritage of our beloved city to tourists,” explained special assistant to the mayor Maria Mathilde T. Octavio. “The selected employees have backgrounds in tourism.”
The program is designed to guide participants through skills-based workshops and help them apply elements of “effective tour-guiding.”
Earlier this year, two Talisay City Tourism Office staff members completed a regional tour guiding course.
The Negros Occidental Tourism Division, in partnership with Tourism Educators and Movers Philippines-Western Visayas and the Department of Tourism-Region VI (DOT-6), conducted tour guide training courses every weekend.
The 23-day course, which ran from March 2 to June 2, included topics such as personality development, destinations and activities, basic first aid, crisis management, Filipino culture, DOT accreditation, among others./WDJ