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formerly Tour Guide Certificate
This certificate is intended to help those actively pursuing employment in tour operations management gain essential skills and to help busy working professionals in the industry upgrade their skill sets. Specially designed to be completed in as few as four consecutive semesters, this intensive certificate gives you exposure to both core George Brown College curriculum and industry-relevant content and encourages bridging into an appropriate full-time hospitality program. For more information, contact the Continuing Education Hospitality & Culinary Arts department at 416-415-5000, ext. 2517, or cehospitality@georgebrown.ca. You are also invited to attend an information session. |
Career Opportunities:
With tour guide training, you can look forward to a career as a local, regional, domestic or international tour guide. Your knowledge could also help you become a tour operator, destination guide, travel agent or tour planner. |
Advanced Standing:
This certificate shares the bulk of its requirements with the other Operations Management certificates (Catering, Food and Beverage, Front Office, Hotel, Housekeeping, Kitchen, Special Events, Tourism and Leisure). If you complete this certificate and wish to obtain any other Operations Management certificate, you only need to complete four additional courses. |
Certificate Completion:
We recommend that you complete the compulsory courses in the order shown below. However, the order in which you complete the required courses is only restricted by prerequisite requirements. |
Compulsory Courses (Ten)
All of the following:
HOST 9028 Smart Serve (online)
HOSF 1180 Emergency First Aid and Heartsaver CPR
HOST 1131 Career Readiness
One of the following:
COMM 1008 College English
COMM 1138 College English (online)
All of the following:
MATH 1103 Hospitality Mathematics
One of the following:
HOST 9072 Basic Sanitation
HOST 9082 Basic Sanitation
All of the following:
HOST 9067 Tour Dimensions
HOST 9077 Tour Research
HOST 9068 Tour Communication
HOST 9069 Tour Delivery and Guest Relations
Elective Courses (Choose Two)
GHUM 1083 Art of Eating and Dining
ACCT 2030 Financial Management for Hospitality
ACCT 1039 Hospitality Accounting
MARK 2012 Hospitality Marketing
HRM 2016 Human Resources for Hotel Management
HOST 2025 Leadership Skills
GSSC 1049 Trends and Issues in Tourism |
