Lia Bakhshinyan, the head of the Armenian Guides Guild and FelicitasWressnig, the president of the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (WFTGA), have signed today an agreement in Yerevan to establish an international training centre of guides in the Armenian capital.

Deputy economy minister Sergey Avetisyan said this is the first such center in the region and only the third in the world.

He thanked the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ),
the USAID and the Yerevan State University for their contribution
to the establishment of the center.

Lia Bakhshinyan said the first two-week training course to start
December 11 will be conducted by skilled Armenian coaches.
The following course will be held in March next year. In the first
stage, according to Bakshinyan, the course will embrace 12 people,
six from Yerevan and the regions of Armenia and the other six from
other countries.

Felicitas Wressnig said the center will play a very important role
in the training of professional guides. It will operate in close
cooperation with the Yerevan State University that will house the courses.

The signing ceremony was attended by Mekhak Apresyan, the head of an economy ministry department in charge of tourism development,
Aram Khachaturyan, the executive director of the National
Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia, representatives of Yerevan State University, the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Two international training courses for guides were conducted in Armenia in 2012 in cooperation with WFTGA, which has two other centers in Cyprus and Malaysia.

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On July 24-25, 2014 in Tsaghkadzor, a multilateral seminar was held on the development of tourism in Armenia. The main focus of the seminar was IDENTIFICATION OF IMPORTANT FACTORS OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN ARMENIA. Among the organizations present in the field of tourism and service, the Guild also took an active part.
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On February 21, World Guide Day, the Guild and "Kenats Tun" NGO organized an excursion to Echmiadzin for children from socially disadvantaged families from the city of Gyumri.

AGG conducts a four-month training course for future guides according to the standards of the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (WFTGA). Beginning February 15, 2010

September 28, 2009. The Armenian Guides Guild was awarded Golden Medal from the Ministry of Economy of Armenia