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THERE ARE VARIOUS REGULATIONS DEPENDENT UPON THE PRECISE ROLE OF A GUIDE READER QUESTION: I WOULD LIKE TO WORK AS A TOUR GUIDE. HOW WOULD I GO ABOUT THIS? Being a tour guide in the general

sense – _un guide touristique_ – is not a regulated profession in France. This means that if you know your area well, love art or history and talking to people, then you could set yourself

up as an auto-entreprise, a simple self-employment set-up. You could organise your own tours and/or market yourself to tourist offices, tour operators and hotels. Skills in several languages

– at least French and English – are important. It is highly recommended to take out professional insurance (_assurance responsabilité civile professionnelle_). If you want to improve your

knowledge, there are various tourism-related courses you can take. One source of information would be an adult learning body called the GRETA CFA (you can do an internet search with this

term and your region). SOME POSITIONS ARE REGULATED However, the ‘official’ job of a _guide-conférencier_ is highly regulated and tour operators are legally obliged to use people authorised

by the prefecture for this profession in the case of offering visits to state museums and historic monuments. The main qualification for this is a specific French degree and masters course.

If you believe your prior experience and other (French or foreign) studies mean you have equivalent skills and knowledge, it may be possible to obtain a recognition of this via the VAE

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