Welcome to Guiding Organisations Australia!

Guiding Organisations Australia (GOA) was established in 2003 as an umbrella body for the individual tour guiding organisations and associations throughout Australia. Through it's actions it was soon recognised as the peak body for Tour Guides throughout Australia. To Learn more about GOA, click here.

GOA strives to improve recognition of tour guides and promote professional development within the industry and launched a national tour guide accreditation called Guides of Australia in June 2006.

This website endeavours to bring together knowledge from all sectors of the tourism industry and related fields for the benefit of all tour guides within Australia. Some information is only available to registered users. It's simple to register and free. Just enter your own email address and a password of your choice. So, REGISTER NOW and look further into your site.

If you are a Tour Guide, a Tourism stakeholder or are interested in the Tour Guiding profession you will be interested in the wealth of information here.

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