The Guild of Professional Tour Guides
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Phone: 202-966-4935
The Guild of Professional Tour Guides of Washington, D.C. is a non-profit organization of over 500 members. Nearly 400 Guild members are professional tourist guides licensed by the District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs.
Guides are highly educated individuals from varied backgrounds who have experience conducting tours for visitors from all over the world. Our members provide a variety of tours in the Washington metropolitan area, including city highlight tours, walking tours, specialty tours and foreign-language tours in at least 16 languages. Most Guild guides are independent contractors; you can hire guides through the Guild website: www.washingtondctourguides.com. On the opening page of the site, click on HIRE A TOUR GUIDE and then complete a HireGuides4DC form. The Guild itself does not operate tours; our members do.
If you need not only a guide but comprehensive services (especially necessary for large groups), the website offers details about Affiliate member tour companies which can help you plan your visit and make other arrangements such as hotel, motor coach, meals, and site ticketing. These Affiliate members businesses in the travel and tourism industry routinely hire tourist guides. Guild Friend members are organizations such as hotels, restaurants, museums and government agencies, which support the objectives of the Guild. Their information is available through our website too.
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“The DC Jazz Jam has provided a tremendous boost to DC’s indigenous jazz scene. [The] cadre of fine musicians at Dahlak have managed to create a warm, inviting, encouraging, and creative environment at their weekly jam sessions, which is no small accomplishment. Experienced professionals, like myself, attend the jam to relax, stretch out musically, and network with other players. But at the same time, the DC Jazz Jam has proved to be the perfect setting for younger talent to come out, and have some of their first experiences playing in front of an audience and to learn their craft in the laboratory of a nurturing jam session. In this manner, the DC Jazz Jam is but the latest chapter in Washington’s long history with America’s classical music, jazz.”