Guiding Services

PROFESSIONAL LICENSED TOUR GUIDES IN TURKIYE
There are about 15.000 professional tourist guides who hold the license in Turkiye majorly serving in Istanbul, Cappadocia, and Ephesus on daily tours or escorted around Anatolia and the whole country. There are 2 different license types as national or regional. National license holders are able to serve throughout Turkiye and the regional license holders can only serve in one specific region as local guidance. You can easily check their license since they have to carry them on while on tour. Tour guides get their license either after studying Professional Tourist Guiding branch at a college or after attending a specific course. So, there are two other types. Some only make their living on guiding some have other professions…

Although there are thousands of registered ones (as well as illegal/unlicensed ones) in the country, we do work with a limited number of them on a reference basis.
On special interest itineraries –such as Jewish heritage, history of art, wine tours etc. We may recommend continuing with one specific guide who has the same professional background.
We all know that you can do bookings online via various websites who acclaim to have listed the best ones in each destination. ıt is possible to find some travel forums or Trip Advisor etc. but always remember to ask for the official license as it is illegal to do tours with an unlicensed guide.