WHAT IS A BLUE BADGE GUIDE?

Short answer? The best. Long answer? We’ve had two years of intensive training and passed ten exams to achieve the highest tourist guiding qualification in the UK. Many of us – me included – have further training and qualifications.

We are the official, professional tourist guides of the UK, and are recognised by Visit Britain as London’s official tourist guides.

Blue Badge Tourist Guides – to give us our official title – are the only external guides permitted to guide the major sites such as Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London, St Paul’s Cathedral and Windsor Castle.

I am also a member of APTG (the Association of Professional Tourist Guides). I’m also a member of the Institute of Tourist Guiding.