Calling all Tour Professionals!!  Time to meet your friends and fellow tour professionals for a night of networking and fun education.

Join the new 2013 Board of Directors for the first Las Vegas Tourist Guides Guild gathering for 2013 at Madame Tussauds.

Madame Tussauds Las Vegas is the hottest, interactive celebrity attraction on the Las Vegas Strip. While their worldwide attractions have prided themselves on their interactive nature for more than 200 years by encouraging people to take pictures, mingle and even touch the incredibly lifelike wax figures, it has now been taken to a whole new level. Like a good scare? SCREAM, is the scariest attraction in Las Vegas. Wax figures and live actors await you in this uniquely themed environment. Enter if you dare!

During this complimentary self-guided tour members can immerses themselves in a number of sensational, one of-a-kind dynamic experiences that create personal memories with some of the world’s biggest icons; Madame Tussauds, invites our membership to do the things that celebrities do, all set in authentic environments that puts you with the “in crowd”.

So let’s get an inside look at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas and explore some of the interactive experiences, adding another hands on personal experience to articulate to your tour clients. We would like to thanks a friend of the LVTGG, Jacinta Jose for extending complementary admission to our guild members.

RSVP to: thanksbabs@gmail.com, your earliest response would be appreciated, but please no later than Sunday, January 27, 2013

Where: Madame Tussauds, Venetian Hotel, 3377 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89109, (702) 862-7800 (front of hotel on the strip, closest to Denny’s)

When: Monday, January 29, 2013

Time & Place: 6:30 PM, meet at ticket booth by moving walkway, please be prompt.

Please Note: This is open to all renewed members, past members and guiding industry guests. This event is complementary to all current 2013 members or previous 2012 membership.  Renewals are encouraged for future gatherings and events. so don’t forget your checkbook!

Not a Guild Member Yet? 

Not a problem.  As a Las Vegas Tour Professional, this is an excellent opportunity to come out with us and see why you should be a member.

The Las Vegas Tourist Guides Guild Board of Directors looks forward to having all our members joining us for the LVTGG Holiday Gathering & Heritage Walk Friday, December 7, 2012.

Join other members and their guests for a festive holiday walk around the Clark County Heritage Museum in Henderson, during this complimentary open house for Las Vegas residents. For those members enrolled in our certification course, what perfect way to end weeks of study.

The museum includes the Anna Roberts Parks Exhibit Hall and Heritage Street which contains eight historic buildings from the county. The museum focuses on the history of the southernmost county in Nevada with emphasis on the early Native American inhabitants such as the Paiute people, as well as mining, the impact of the railroads, and gaming. Exhibits include several historic houses as well as a recreated ghost town.

Heritage Street homes offer doorways into past decades, from the 1910s to the 1970s. The Boulder City depot and collection of railroad cars recall the railroad heritage of southern Nevada, while the arrested decay along the Ghost Town and Mining Trail offers a perspective on life in the hot and arid Southwest environment. So join us at the Clark County Museum, a place where you can learn about and explore the rich and colorful history of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, Henderson and Boulder City.

We will start our Heritage walk with an introduction and overview for Las Vegas Tourist Guides Guild members at 4:30pm, and then continue on as a group or individually throughout Heritage Street all decked out & decorated for the holidays. After the tour we may all head out to a local restaurant for a light meal or snack.

Details:

Where: The Clark County Heritage Museum, 1830 S. Boulder Highway

Henderson, NV 89002-8502, 702) 455-7955

When: Friday, December 7, 2012

• 4:30 PM LVTGG welcome by Clark County Museum Administrator & Historian, Mark Hall-Patton (The guy from Pawn Stars!). Please be prompt. Click Here for MAP

• 5PM Membership Meeting & Voting Please make every effort to vote for the 2013 Board of Directors; sorry our by-laws do not allow proxy or email ballots.
• 5:30PM Tour of the decorated homes on Heritage Street

Call Babs at 702 370 6961 to meet up with us.

http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/depts/parks/pages/clark-county-museum.aspx

See you there,

We know Las Vegas is an International Tourist Destination.  That’s why The Las Vegas Tourist Guides Guild offers you a list of their professional foreign language tour guides.

Want to see the strip and hear it in French?  Not a problem.  Looking to take a group of German business leaders to the grand Canyon?  No sweat, we got the guide.  Looking for someone to show you the Hoover Dam who speaks Arabic?  We got you covered.

In fact, The Las Vegas Tourist Guides Guild has members who speak over 10 different languages.

• Checkout The LVTGG Foreign Language Guides

About the LVTGG

The Las Vegas Tourist Guides Guild is a membership organization of tour professionals and members of the travel and tour industry who live and work in the Las Vegas area.

So You Think You Know Las Vegas??

Stop guessing and get certified.  Know for sure.  The Las Vegas Tourist Guides Guild will conduct a Certified Professional Tourist Guide training this Fall.

In this weekly class, you will study the Mojave desert, Plateau County, Las Vegas and the surrounding area.

Focusing on major tourist destinations.

1. Geaology
2. Flora/Fauna
3. Explorers/Pioneers
4. Mining
5. Las Vegas 1905 to present

Pre-Registration is Required

Classes will be held every Sunday night 7-9pm and begin September 30 to November 4.

Expect assignments and testing on all subjects

Contact Char Cruz  for more information and details (702) 493-2211

Since CPTG trainees must be members of the Las Vegas Tourist Guides Guild,  the Guild is offering a Special Membership Offer for 2013. Any new membership application received and accompanied by a registration for CPTG training will receive membership benefits through December 2013.

The total cost for 15+ months of LVTGG membership and registration for the Fall 2012 Tour Guide Certification training is only $50. Please mail to Las Vegas Tourist Guide Guild, PO Box 26355, Las Vegas NV 89126-0355 prior to September 30, 2012.

Why Get Certified?

• Meeting planners in other major cities are accustomed to using Certified Tour Professionals and are making that requirement of all tours for any clients they represent, no matter what city he meeting is held in.
• Being certified, you stand above the average Tour Guide in knowing what you are talking about.  The confidence as well as the knowledge will make you a better guide.  Increasing chances to better tips and more referrals.

Who says Vegas doesn’t have culture?  The new $400 Million Smith Center has put Broadway and the culture snobs of New York on notice!!  Vegas has arrived.

Yes, The Smith Center has awaken a sleeping giant and opened a new chapter in the entertainment  capital of the world.  Bringing Broadway west and selling out almost every show it has been able to book.

Come and See Why

Join the Las Vegas Tourist Guides Guild, “invite only” networking event for tour professionals. This event is free, but please RSVP.

Come see for yourselves the new state of the art, world-class performing arts center that presents the best and brightest in a broad range of first-rate programming for the residents of our community.

The Smith Center cultural complex will enable Southern Nevada to take its place on an international stage, celebrating artistic excellence, education and culture from around the world.

The LVTGG Board of Directors looks forward to your joining our mixer as we all intermingle to exchange information, and updates on the state of the tourist guide professional.

Its Industry only, Invite only, so please RSVP to thanksbabs@gmail.com, by May 31, so we can add your name and your guests to our list. We encourage you to bring other prospective members for the Las Vegas Tourist Guides Guild to our third yearly gathering. Spouses or family are invited to join this tour.

And for those interested in joining us for a quick repast & beverage after discovering The Smith Center, we can stop at a local eatery, Casa Don Juan’s on Main Street, for a quick beverage or snack and guild updaters.

Click on this link for Directions & Parking

Where: The Smith Center

When: Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Time: 4:00 PM

Address: 361 Symphony Park Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89106

Phone: 702-749-2012

Web: www.thesmithcenter.com

See you there

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Photo: Tom Donoghue!