Dear Colleagues and Friends
“The Beginning of Globalisation and the Algarve” is the theme for this year’s meeting. Prince Henry the Navigator launched the beginning of globalisation when his Portuguese expedition set sail from the Algarve to Ceuta in 1415.
This year all the European Tourist Guides are invited for the fourth time to join us in Portugal. I have chosen the Algarve region in the south of Portugal for this fourth visit, following Porto in 2009, Madeira in 2011 and Evora in 2013. As you see, we never tire of the pleasure of welcoming you to this beautiful and amazing country. So from the 19th till the 24th November 2019 you will be receiving a warm welcome in Faro, the Capital of the Algarve Region.
I have decided, in consultation with FEG ExCo, to make some changes to the general programme this year. Over the last few years the FEG ExCo has invested a lot of resources in trainer training, in order to increase the pool of FEG Accredited Trainers in Europe. The FEG ExCo and I have decided to invite the FEG trainers-in-accreditation to present part of their work and training in Faro. So when you register for the FEG Annual Meeting this year, you will be required to choose two workshops from the several which will be offered. The ExCo is keen that all members receive the CPD benefit of FEG’s investment in trainer training, and in addition we are confident that by your attendance you will show your collegiate support for our FEG trainers-in-accreditation and your appreciation of all the hard work and intensive preparation they have put into their years of training.
If you wish to extend your stay after the main AGM programme, you are cordially invited to do the post tour to Lisbon. In the Capital of Portugal I have organised a special cultural programme which will include visits to some of the most important monuments and museums and will end with a cultural treat – a Fado dinner to close the programme with a unique Portuguese flourish!
As always when welcoming colleagues to Portugal, I have prepared a programme which should appeal to all with some nice surprises thrown in!
See you in November!
Paulo Cosme
General Secretary of SNATTI and FEG ExCo
Dear Colleagues and Friends
“The Beginning of Globalisation and the Algarve” is the theme for this year’s meeting. Prince Henry the Navigator launched the beginning of globalisation when his Portuguese expedition set sail from the Algarve to Ceuta in 1415.
This year all the European Tourist Guides are invited for the fourth time to join us in Portugal. I have chosen the Algarve region in the south of Portugal for this fourth visit, following Porto in 2009, Madeira in 2011 and Evora in 2013. As you see, we never tire of the pleasure of welcoming you to this beautiful and amazing country. So from the 19th till the 24th November 2019 you will be receiving a warm welcome in Faro, the Capital of the Algarve Region.
I have decided, in consultation with FEG ExCo, to make some changes to the general programme this year. Over the last few years the FEG ExCo has invested a lot of resources in trainer training, in order to increase the pool of FEG Accredited Trainers in Europe. The FEG ExCo and I have decided to invite the FEG trainers-in-accreditation to present part of their work and training in Faro. So when you register for the FEG Annual Meeting this year, you will be required to choose two workshops from the several which will be offered. The ExCo is keen that all members receive the CPD benefit of FEG’s investment in trainer training, and in addition we are confident that by your attendance you will show your collegiate support for our FEG trainers-in-accreditation and your appreciation of all the hard work and intensive preparation they have put into their years of training.
If you wish to extend your stay after the main AGM programme, you are cordially invited to do the post tour to Lisbon. In the Capital of Portugal I have organised a special cultural programme which will include visits to some of the most important monuments and museums and will end with a cultural treat – a Fado dinner to close the programme with a unique Portuguese flourish!
As always when welcoming colleagues to Portugal, I have prepared a programme which should appeal to all with some nice surprises thrown in!
See you in November!
Paulo Cosme
General Secretary of SNATTI and FEG ExCo
Dear colleagues,
for those of you who have not booked your flights to Crete yet. Aegean Airlines advertises 20% discount to all flights from abroad to Greece, if booked until the 5th September.
https://en.aegeanair.com/plan/offers-competitions/greece-international-offer/
Hurry up!
Dear tourist guides and FEG member delegates,
It is a pleasure to invite you to the 20th FEG European Tourist Guide Meeting and AGM to be held in November 2018 in Heraklion, Crete island, Greece.
Our organising committee of the Panhellenic Tourist Guide Federation and particularly the colleagues of the Professional Tourist Guide Association of Crete & Thera have been planning for this event. A great number of volunteers is also contributing to make your stay and visit a memorable one. We are putting together a programme which includes many of the social and cultural highlights that Crete island has to offer to you all. Our FEG accredited trainers will be ready once again to facilitate more FEG seminars for tourist guides’ life-long training in the Cretan venue. In addition, we make any possible effort to have many sponsors who will help us to keep costs down for you. The facility of the FEG meeting website which was developed by Sebastian Frankenberger and myself for the 2017 Dublin FEG AGM will be of great help for you and the organisers again this year for our next Crete FEG Meeting 2018. To all those who have helped or will help to put this event together I am sending my huge thanks. We all look forward to meeting you and showing you some of the highlights of Crete island in our pre-meeting and in the main programme, as well as part of the Greek mainland on our post-meeting tour.
We promise you an interesting, entertaining and memorable visit in November 2018 and we look forward to welcoming you to Greece. More details and registration applications can be found in spring 2018 on the FEG Meeting website link here below.
Warm Regards,
Efi Kalampoukidou
President of the European Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (FEG)
President of Panhellenic Tourist Guide Federation (POXEN)
Evangelos Papanikolaou
President of the Professional Tourist Guide Association of Crete & Thera
Marinela Mamalaki-Stavrakaki
Head of the 20th FEG European Tourist Guides Meeting & AGM Organising Committee
Fellow tourist guides and friends,
It is with great pleasure and anticipation that we look forward to your visit with us at the 19th Annual Tourist Guide Meeting and FEG AGM in Dublin in November. Our hardworking committee have been planning for the event for nearly two years and they have managed to put together a programme which includes many of the social and cultural highlights that Ireland has to offer. In addition to the committee a significant number of our members have volunteered to help with various aspects of the running of the event so you will also get a chance to meet them during your visit with us. Without sponsorship, an event such as this would be very expensive. We have had a fantastic response from many sponsors which helped to keep costs down and they are highlighted on our sponsors page. This year is the first year that we will have the facility of the FEG meeting website which was developed by Efi Kalampoukidou and Sebastian Frankenberger. This development will be a great facility for future meetings.
To all those who helped to pull this event together I say a ‘go raimh mile maith agat’ (a thousand thanks). To the participants I look forward to meeting you and showing you a special Irish welcome. Whether you decide to come for one part of the event of all three, I promise you an interesting, entertaining and memorable visit with us in November.
Kind Regards,
Neil Doherty
President of Approved Tourist Guide of Ireland
our meeting of European tourist guides in Brno was just fantastic: informative, with enough free time, musically inspiring and brought our community more together.
Many thanks to Marina and Stanislav and the whole Czech organization team for the great hospitality.
I tried to capture this mood in a small video:
Sebastian Frankenberger
Chairman of the Upper Austrian guide association
