TOUR GUIDING

Course Content and Duration 

 

The Tour Guiding Diploma Course leads to a professional tourist guide career. On successful completion of the course students will obtain a license which will allow them to act as guides in the Maltese Islands. 

 

This is a full-time three-year (six semesters) programme of studies at the Institute plus a compulsory period of fourteen (14) weeks Local Industrial Trade Practice (LITP) and a fourteen (14) week language practice programme abroad. 

 

The Diploma will be awarded after successful completion of the three (3)-year programme of studies. 

 

Entry Criteria  

 

Applicants should possess: 

 

Ordinary SEC Certificate in English as a compulsory subject  

Additional Ordinary SEC Certificates or equivalent in another language from Maltese, French, Italian, German or Spanish  

One foreign language from any of the above needs to be at Intermediate Level  

Additional Ordinary Sec Certificates or equivalent  

The following are the preferred subjects: 

 

All applicants will be assessed on the basis of their Accreditation for Prior Learning (APL) score, composed of their academic qualifications and their Accreditation for Prior Experiential Learning (APEL). All applicants will be required to attend for a personal interview. 

 

Applicants for the Diploma in Tour Guiding course are required to have a minimum APL/APEL score of fifty (50) credits. 

 

Minimum Age 

 

The minimum age of applicants for the above mentioned programme of studies is seventeen (17) years of age as on the 30th June 2006. 

 

Modules covered: 

 

FLS 15 - INTRODUCTION TO MALTESE HISTORY AND CULTURE 

 

FLS 24 - STRUCTURES OF EVERYDAY LIFE 

 

TLS 09C - COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR TOUR GUIDES 

 

TLS 09D - TECHNICAL LANGUAGE SKILLS - ENGLISH 

 

TLS 10AA - PRACTICAL GUIDING TECHNIQUES PART 1 

 

TLS 10B - PRACTICAL GUIDING THEORY 

 

TLS 10C - TECHNICAL LANGUAGE SKILLS - FOREIGN LANGUAGE 

 

FLS 22 - INTERACTIVE MULTILEDIA TECHNOLOGIES 

 

LSTG - LIFE SKILLS 

 

TLS 09A - MALTESE HISTORY 

 

TLS 10D - PRACTICAL LANGAUGE SKILLS 

 

HLS 12 - MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES 

 

TLS 09B - TOUR DESIGNING 

 

FLS 25 - CUSTOMER CARE AND CLIENT RELATIONS 

 

HLS 09 - HISTORY AND CULTURAL STUDIES 

 

HLS 30 - MALTESE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE TOURISM 

 

TLS 10AB - PRACTICAL GUIDING TECHNIQUES PART 2 

 

- DEVELOPMENT OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN MALTA 

 

- MANAGING PEOPLE FOR TOUR GUIDES 

 

- MALTA TODAY 

 

- MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY 

 

- LANGUAGE PRACTICE PROGRAMME 

 

Apart from the above modules, the students have to attend a number of Tutorial Sessions throughout that year. 

 

Tutorial Sessions 

 

Throughout each academic year the students will be asked to attend a number of set tutorial sessions arranged with their assigned tutor.  

 

During these tutorials the student will receive: 

 

To obtain the credit value students need to attend their compulsory tutorial sessions. Students are also welcome to attend further tutorial sessions should they or their assigned tutor feel it is necessary.