I have read other threads and searched and the only find was ... it is outdated and the links don't work.

This request for information is for a THAI NATIONAL to find a school in the Pattaya area in the field of tourism to meet the requirements to obtain a Tourism of Thailand national tour guide license/certification card.

Any help or direction is appreciated. My wife wants to get certified as a tour guide and I want to obtain a starting point on where to begin the search and the training.

Thank you.

The only place I know is Chiangmai University, which is hardly 'in the Pattaya area". I suggest you look for universities, hotel training schools, vocational colleges in your area... and make some enquiries from them.

I will ask my gf she is a tour guide with a license card and has been one for a long time. But mind you its a hard job and you need contacts (friends) to get jobs. They mostly work freelance and get their jobs because of friends and recommendations. I am talking about the Thai market here and some foreigners (not many Europeans).

Its my understanding they only have classes at universities in Bangkok several times a year. You must pass a written test and then verbal test in English before getting the license.

I leaned this info from a past girlfriend that wanted to obtain her tour guide card several years ago. This was back when the Russians were starting to invade Thailand as tourist.

Lady I know was working in Pattaya, but studied at a uni in Bangkok.

She could only get a job working with Indian tour groups.

To participate in the exam you have to have a bachelor's since a few years.

The difficulty is not as much the exam as the networking to get the plum jobs.

There are no real schools in the Pattaya area - its PATTAYA!

Go to hospitality college and then get the lic.

There is a building that has been there forever at Victory Monument - Girl Guides Of Thailand. By the Queens appointment.

^^ Those are the Girl Guide Scouts, a youth movement like the Boy Scouts.

Suan Dusit Rajabhat University - several campuses nationwide.

They need to take a tour guide course to receive a licence. These are mostly at universities. Several universities in Bangkok (e.g. Siam Unviersity and Stamford University) offer these. They are normally in the Summer term. They are conducted in English.

To digress, a Tour guide is a restricted profession and not open to foreigners.

Oh tahnks for that :-)

Yes, no way farang will get a lic to be a tour guide. Don't even waste a breath.

Unless they have Thai citizenship.

Suan Dusit Rajabhat University - several campuses nationwide.

yes that is where the gf got her license

Thanks for the replies.

I did find another thread that had more discussion, although all links are not valid any more.

Unfortunately, there is still no CLEAR documented answer about the requirements so I will have her start making calls.

8-month "Fast Track" program in Bangkok culminating in "Licensed Tour Guide" certification.

http://www.stamford.edu/programs/tour-guide-training-certificate-program/