Our members provide local tours of professional calibre to tour groups coming from round the world to our city and surrounding area. The principal attraction still in our region but outside Toronto is the world famous waterfall, Niagara Falls. Our association believes that we should give every group the best tour possible for that group, often tailor-making the tour to fit the group’s interests, a
nd our members strive to deliver it. Our association and its members support educational activities for the members and we have also supported tour guide education outside our association. We maintain a program of learning events for members at attractions within our area. We believe in accreditation for tour guides and were in the forefront of a drive to introduce certification of guides in Toronto. We also support licensing of tour guides in the Niagara area and most of our members have the Niagara Parks Commission tour guide licence. (Those who do not have the licence are not permitted to take groups to the important Niagara Parks properties in the Niagara Region.) Within our membership there are 15 different languages spoken so among us we can accommodate tour groups from many countries. Our members have a variety of educational, employment and other backgrounds. All can be considered tourism professionals. Our members work for a variety of different local companies. Some are free-lancers who work directly for out-of-town companies. Others work for both. Still others work directly for their clients, perhaps for people like yourselves, people who have just discovered us through this web site. You can arrange for a guide through this web site. See our Guides-for-Hire pages to learn more. Our members are not confined to local tours. Many work also as tour directors or tour managers on long distance tours to various tourist destinations within Canada and around the world.
