Guild of Armenian Guides organizes the three-month training courses for guides on 27. January 2015.
For more information please call Liana Grigoryan (+37491 277 201) until 25 January.

Board AGG

The Armenian Guides Guild, the first professional union in Armenia, created by the professional guides with long-term operational experience in tourism, is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. The fertile activity of the Guild for 10 years is especially distinguished by 3 points:

1) The Guild School is the first professional school of a tourist guide in Armenia (2005), the purpose of which is to transfer the universal knowledge and skills of the profession of a tourist guide to a new generation.

2) The Guild was awarded the Gold Medal (2009) by the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia, for its active work in the development of tourism in Armenia.

3) Opening of the international training center WFTGA in Yerevan (2014). Within the framework of cooperation between the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (WFTGA), AGG and YSU (Yerevan State University) with the assistance of the Ministry of Economy, Armenia represents the only one in the region and the third in the world center for qualifying tourist guides according to international standards.

Our congratulations to all experienced, novice, motivated and active members of the Guild on the 10th anniversary of our trade union. We wish you good health and productive activity in our exciting and very responsible profession.


Best regards
AGG Board

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.