Georgia to Host WFTGA 2019 Convention

Georgia will be hosting the World Federation of Tourist Guides Association (WFTGA) Convention to be held in Tbilisi in January, 2019.

On a WFTGA delegation visit to Georgia, the association’s President, Alushca Ritichie, and Vice President Mary Camp Clarke, met with the Head of the Georgian Tourism Administration George Chogovadze to discuss the preparatory works for hosting the 18th WFTGA International Convention January 20-25, 2019, in the capital, Tbilisi.

The 2019 WFTGA Convention is expected to bring together 500 tourist guides from 80 countries worldwide, the Georgian media reports.

The first International Convention of Tourist Guides was organized in 1985. The World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations now boasts members in more than 70 countries and more than 200,000 individual tourist guides. The Georgian Association of Guides has been a member since 2010.

Nino Gugunishvili