Welcome!

To celebrate International Tourist Guide Day 2006, our members provided free coach tours of downtown Toronto to local residents and visitors to open their eyes on their own city as well as raise the profile of our profession and our association. Please visit our International Tourist Guide Day 2006 page for more information and photos.

Welcome to the official Web site of the Canadian Tour Guide Association of Toronto, the only Association in Toronto for professional tour guides and tour directors. We hope that you will find the information you are looking for here. We also hope you will find time to read through many of the categories and pages that follow.

This Web site will tell you a bit About Us, about the Issues we are confronting on behalf of all tour guides in our area, our Membership information for guides who wish to become members including the application form.  In the same section, you will find membership information for Sponsoring Members (Tour Operators and Destination Management Companies) who wish to be affiliated with us and support our programs.

For Tour Operators and Destination Management Companies looking to hire guides in Toronto or out-of-town work we now have a Guides for Hire page which leads to names of guides available for additional work and a page of Suggested Rates which should be helpful to Tour Operators in determining what to pay a Toronto-area guide.

We also include information on our Events program of educational outings for our members and on our Newsletter. You will even find some sample articles which you may read while browsing.

Many people come to us looking for tourist information which is not our prime responsibility. In order to assist you to find it, we provide our Toronto Tourism Information page where you will discover many useful links to tourism offices and attractions. We hope our redirect capability will help you find the information you need and be the start of a successful visit to our area.

Enjoy your visit to our Web site!

Thank  You For Participating in International Tourist Guide Day.

This is just a note to thank those who joined us on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 for our program of free city tours to observe International Tourist Guide Day. We enjoyed having you with us and hope that you enjoyed your visit and the tour. It was a pleasure having so many people take part. Please visit our International Tourist Guide Day 2006 page for some memories and photos of the experience.

Thinking of Joining CTGA of Toronto?

We accept applications for membership twice each year, in March  and again in October, so that successful applicants may be accepted into membership at our April or November general meetings. The next opportunity to join will be in November 2007 with applications being accepted until October 31, 2007. If you are a Toronto-area tour guide and are interested in membership we welcome your application. Go to our Membership pages for further information and the application form.

Need a Tour Guide?

Our Guides for Hire page helps Tour Operators or Destination Managers needing additional staff contact available guides.

Looking for Tourist Information?

If you are looking for tourist information and brochures, click here to visit our Tourism Information page and then click on the link to Tourism Toronto, or you may link to them directly by clicking here. To help you find information about individual Toronto attractions including hours and admissions we provide links to all the best known attractions here.

Looking for a Course in Tour Guiding?

Proceed to our Education page for information on a new course in Tour Guiding being offered by George Brown College in central Toronto.