{"id":145,"date":"2017-02-14T21:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/?p=145"},"modified":"2023-02-24T09:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T09:34:59","slug":"international-tourist-guide-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/blog\/2017\/02\/14\/international-tourist-guide-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Tourist Guide Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations was established on Feb 21, 1985. In 1989, the federation suggested to declare February 21 as International Tourist Guide Day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The objectives of the day are several:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enhance the image of the Guides<\/li>\n<li>Make Tourist Guides themselves aware of their role<\/li>\n<li>Inform the public of what Guiding is all about<\/li>\n<li>Make people aware of their cultural and environmental heritage<\/li>\n<li>Make people aware of the problems Tourist guides face (traffic, security etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Bring people closer to our profession through professionalism<\/li>\n<li>Give direct messages to the public on issues concerning the Tourist Industry<\/li>\n<li>Protect the environment and cultural heritage through professional management of groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tours that guides organize are all free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Please do follow different Tourist Guide FB pages:&nbsp;<strong>WFTGA<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>FEG<\/strong>&nbsp;and web pages, like&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wftga.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WFTGA<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feg-touristguides.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FEG<\/a>, where you can find activities around your home.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you are on tour, make sure to contact local tourist guide association like&nbsp;<strong>ARGOS<\/strong>&nbsp;- Association of tourist guides of Slovenia - FB or&nbsp;web page&nbsp;and join them with their celebration!<\/p>\n<p>Let us be proud of our peace ambassadorial role!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/int_tour_day_logo.png\" alt=\"int tour day logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations was established on Feb 21, 1985. In 1989, the federation suggested to declare February 21 as International Tourist Guide Day.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sloveniaguides.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}