Yellow Badge Guide Training

Yellow Badge Guides, or Site Affiliates,  specialise in specific fixed route tours of a site e.g. a visitor attraction, a nature reserve or a fixed town walk or fixed-route bus tour.

Yellow Badge guide training courses are normally run by employers or organisations for their own staff, such as visitor attractions or city tour companies. You would have to work for such an employer or organisation to benefit from a Yellow Badge guide training course. 

Employers

Companies who are interested in having their guides assessed for site affiliation can apply to STGA to have their own training programmes approved. Please contact the Business Support Manager for further details on accreditation.

Companies who have provided this training for their own staff are:

• City Sightseeing Glasgow
• The National Trust for Scotland
• Wilsons Glasgow Tours
• Mercat Tours, Edinburgh

Training through a designated Training Provider, amounts to 200 learning hours.
The Final Assessment, under the direct control of the STGA Board of Directors, takes 1 day and involves oral or written questions on site-specific Core Knowledge, language assessment if appropriate and practical site assessment.