ASEAN Tourist Guides Conference

Impact of overtourism towards intangible cultural heritage assets.

Acknowledging the rapid growth of global tourism and its potential to erode the authenticity and sustainability of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Understanding the responsibility of governments, local communities, and the tourism industrial players to strengthen the need of need for stronger, collaborative, and innovative resolutions. A sustainable approach in preserving cultural heritage assets amidst mounting pressures in tourism remains an unresolved agenda, requiring collaborative efforts from all stakeholders to achieve sustainable tourism development without degrading the cultural heritage values.

Forum: Restoration with gentrification of historical assets
Speaker: Mr. Rosli Haji Nor, representative of International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) Malaysia.

Tourism board gives you the license, but they dont feed you. It is up to you to be proactive in learning continuously and develop your own content (menu).

Forum: Tour Guiding in Urban Landscape
Speaker: Mdm. Catherine Ross, President of the Society of Tourist Guides Singapore

Why tourist guide not to wear branded item?

Speech by Madam Catherine Ross, President of the Society of Tourist Guides Singapore.

Nowadays, less tourists seek advice from travel agent to book their vacation due to transparency, digitalization and emerging of online travel platforms. Is travel agency a sunset industry? How would it affect the tourist guides future and how could tourist guides survive in this new horizon?

Speech by Mr. Jimmy Leong, President of Malaysian Tourist Guides Council

Speech by Mr. Jimmy Leong, President of Malaysian Tourist Guides Council on the Changes in Tourist Behavior After the Pandemic.

Story of "Aman" Orang Utan by Mr Sim Kheng Kiat (licensed tourist guide).

How would it be when a tourist guide leads a group of tourist guides?

Our senior tourist guide Madam Margaret from Sarawak, Malaysia, who served as a policewoman before, confidently led a group of tourist guides from various ASEAN countries. Her commentary was full of humor and interactive.