About Us

Tourist Guide Association of the province of Catania
Open to Catania

Welcome to Catania, the city risen from its ashes.
Squeezed between the sea and Mount Etna, let yourself be guided among the Baroque wonders hiding the traces of a millennial history.

Giusy Belfiore
president
30
Years of experience

Welcome to Catania

The Tourist Guide Association of the Province of Catania has been promoting and evaluating the tourism resources of the Etnean territory since 1991, the year of its founding.

The association brings together, to date, nearly 70 licensed tour guides who provide services in numerous languages:

ENGLISH

FRENCH

GERMAN

SPANISH

MALTESE

JAPANESE

GREEK

RUSSIAN

TURKISH

DUTCH

About Us

Promotion of the territory.
Cultural guided tours to discover Catania:

In addition to protecting the rights of members, safeguarding the professional ethics of members, and studying and solving problems common to the category represented, the association is involved in promoting the area through cultural activities such as tours, conferences, congresses, publications, and refresher courses.

Its presence in the area is now well-established and recognizable, both by tour operators and institutions. Over the years, in fact, the Catania Guide Association has conducted guided tours of city-run sites at the festivals of “The Night of the Museums”, in addition to having had the custody for the guided tours of the Ursino Castle’s Civic Museum, the Crypt of Sant’Euplio and the Church of San Nicolò La Rena.

Knowledge of the territory

Specific services for the enjoyment of tourist-cultural routes.

Exclusive Services

Since 2016, it has been exclusively in charge of the tourist-cultural fruition services of the Theatro Massimo "Vincenzo Bellini"of Catania.

Highly qualified guides

All members of the association meet the requirements of Regional Law 8/2004 (and subsequent additions) and are qualified for tourist destinations in the eastern part of Sicily and in the management of individual and group tourism.

Memberships and Collaborations

The Catania Guide Association is a member of Confguide, the national confederation of tourist guides that aims to protect the category and combat abusive practices, as well as FGS, Federation of Sicilian Tourist Guide Associations, of which the president of the Catania Guide Association is vice president.

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