Our online training is simple and fast.
Step 1 — Choose your course below
Step 2 — Create your training account
Step 3 — Pay securely with PayPal and begin immediately
You’ll get instant access to videos, text lessons, interactive exercises, and a short quiz.
Start with any course — you can take them in any order.
Click “eCourses Webshop” above to buy courses. Or click below for course descriptions and to try Demo courses for free.
1. A toolkit of practical World Class Skills to lead a successful career in tourism
2. An international qualification validating your training. It is recognised worldwide
3. FREE access to our online job market, World of Mouth
12 courses, 12 certificates = ONE global qualification
Our online courses give you priority access to jobs.
In addition to EastguidesWest and ILM certification, you become a preferred guide in our EastguidesWest system. This means you will have increased visibility in our worldwide online job market.
If your tours and scores are good, we will pass your CV to our Western tour operator network after you take our courses. So make sure you upload your CV and tour itineraries directly in the course area. We may also contact you about promoting your tours to guests through our EastguidesWest Adventures Programme.
Are you a new or experienced tour guide? Are you passionate and knowledgeable about your country? Do you strive to show visitors your region’s unique and memorable places?
The online tour guide courses are for employed and self-employed tour guides, and for tour operators employing tour guides.
Our set of 12 online courses are designed primarily for self-employed tour leaders, and inbound tour operators wanting more Western guests. Most courses are for employed tour leaders too. Please see individual course descriptions.
We suggest you keep a pen and paper handy to make notes throughout each course. You will, however, have access to each of your purchased courses for 12 months.
To access the course content through a browser or a smartphone, you will need one of the following:
“Useful and inspiring!”
I’ve learned a lot of things so that it was important for me to write down all what you give us. I put myself in the place of my guest and try create some ideas how to make the tour more interactive and memorable. I hope, you will like it. I’ll be still thinking about interesting ideas for implementing. This course is so useful and inspiring.
“More value in our products”
This course is absolutely must have for every young, beginning, but also long year professional tour leader, guide and all other travel industry involved professionals in Uzbekistan, and probably in all region Central Asia.
In a smart, clear, few steps and with exercises we can learn the economical background of being behind the tourism and guiding. That will help all of us to bring more value in our products and really earn money from our work.
Thank you EastguidesWest for this amazing product!
“Videos were great!”
This course is the most interesting and useful course for all tour operators and guides as well as drivers. I really liked your online course. Especially videos were great and useful! All text is written in a simple way with simple and understandable sentences.
