During British Tourism Week, Blue and Green Badge Tourist Guides across the country showed visitors the difference a qualified and enthusiastic professional can make - 52 weeks a year! We aim to be entertaining, accurate and informative.
The Guild organised over a third of total British Tourism Week events, with guided walks in towns and cities across the land - in Chester, Cheltenham, and Cumbria; Oxford, Wales, Worcester, and Bury St Edmunds.
In Cambridge the theme was "In the footsteps of giants", with the impact of famous Cambridge scientists explained to everyone from 6 to 60!
In Manchester guides dressed up in bonnets and top hats to bring the past to life as only the best story tellers can.
 In London, close to 1,000 eager Londoners and visitors donned their walking boots and were treated to free walks across the city with 28 different variations on the theme of “Great British.”. These walks were as varied, colourful and lively as London itself, reminding us of London’s rich history, as well as its vibrant present and even the future - the much anticipated 2012 Olympic Games. (The walk through the proposed site attracted 120 people - quite a feat for the intrepid Blue Badge Guide!).
The inventiveness, imagination and knowledge of the Guides was displayed as they covered topics from shopping to Shakespeare; Great British statesmen to Great British villains; food, engineering, the theatre, the monarchy, art, architecture, statues, music and nursery rhymes. The positive feedback from the 996 happy walkers, proved the day to be such a success, that enthusiastic plans for a similar day in March 2009 are already being aired!
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