09/07/2024
The qualified tourist guides of Greece protest against a Ministry of Tourism new bill of law proposed these days on public consultation.
The controversial legislation proposal by the Greek Government completely changes the nature of our guiding services by amending the existing term of "tourist guide" for Greece.
It aims to deregulate our profession and to "transform" the country's nationwide well-trained, assessed and certified tourist guides into "exclusively guides of monuments, museums and archaeological sites"!
This "job" would be left to anyone from anyplace in the world to do, with absolutely no specialised training or qualification to guide, if this new absurd legal terminology is voted by the Greek Parliament. Demostrations during the high season are to continue if they are not heard by the Greek Ministry of Tourism.
They express the guides' opposition to the proposed term and law, their anger and bitterness for the devaluation of their professional services and training, stressing the damage to be caused to the tourism & cultural image of Greece for the near future by any amateur who would be allowed to guide across their country.
