Membership is far more than a listing. It covers the essentials of guiding professionally in Ireland, puts you in front of the right visitors, and backs you up with a community and a collective voice.
Protection and credentials
Public-liability insurance
Cover at an association rate, the protection clients, venues and operators ask to see.
Official ID and lanyard
Your ITGA photo ID for the current year, with a QR code linking to your profile, renewed annually.
The ITGA verified mark
A trust badge on your profile that tells visitors you are a real, checked, insured member.
Getting found and getting work
A search-ready profile
Listed by county, language, specialism, tour type and accessibility, and found through our clickable map of Ireland.
Fair exposure
Results are shuffled every time, so no member is buried at the bottom of a list.
Request-a-guide referrals
When a visitor asks us to match them, your listing is in the pool for your area and languages.
Enquiries direct, no commission
Visitors and operators contact you directly. ITGA never takes a cut of your work.
Found on Google
A public, crawlable profile that works for your name and your specialisms around the clock.
Multilingual reach
The whole site can be read in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian, so overseas visitors find you in their own language.
Growing as a professional
Familiarisation trips
Twice-yearly FAM trips to keep your knowledge of sites and regions fresh.
Training and CPD
Signposting to recognised tourist-guide training and continuing professional development.
Manage your own page
Sign in any time to update your photo, bio, tours and areas. Changes are reviewed before they go live.
Best-practice and standards
Shared guidance on professional standards, safety and looking after your guests.
A collective voice, and a community
Representation
A shared voice for independent guides with the wider tourism industry and public bodies.
A network of peers
Member events and a community of guides who share the same standards and love of the job.
Support when you need it
Someone to turn to on membership, standards or a difficult query.
Member offers
Access to member updates and any partner offers the association arranges.