Tour Directing Video
Interested in learning more about becoming a Tour Director and if it's the right career for you? Watch the four minute A Traveling Lifestyle Video and other insightful tour directing videos.

- A Traveling Lifestyle Video
- Other Tour Directing Videos

- Symposium 2010 Brochure (PDF)
- Symposium 2010 Registration Form
- Symposium 2010 Transportation   (PDF)
- ITMI Symposium 2009 Sponsors
- Highlights of Symposium 2009
- 30th Anniversary Video

Graduate Feedback

Thank you again ITMI, for changing my life. I absolutely love tour directing and wear my pin proudly!
Sara

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and for really doing all the hard work figuring it out for the past 30 years. I love the diversity. I will not die UN-FUN!! New life, new friends...I am really doing this!!!
Candace

The...information I learned while I was here... and the support from instructors helped me tremendously in such a short amount of time. I would do it all again in a minute...just give me a chance to compose my butterflies!
Lyndsay

The Premier Training Institute for Tour Directors
         Professional Travel Training since 1976

The International Tour Management Institute (ITMI) trains people to become professional tour directors (also known as tour managers, tour escorts, couriers, trip leaders, trek leaders, travel directors, and tour conductors) and tour guides.

As stated in a recent article, travel has always been the most important medium to self-discovery. The interactions each day with people, cultures, and backgrounds different than one's own, offer perspectives unmatched in any other industry.

As well as countless opportunities for personal fulfillment, this travel career offers you the freedom to decide when and where you want to work. You will be paid to visit fine resorts, dine at world famous restaurants, and become your own goodwill ambassador.

ITMI has been conducting intensive 15-day travel training programs for over 30 years. We offer free lifetime job placement assistance and have helped over 6,000 graduates create tour guide careers with over 600 tour operators. Let us show you how to put the power of three decades of building relationships within the travel industry to work for you.

Travel Director Profiles

When was the last time you went for work Exploring the Grand Canyon? Snorkeling off a cruise ship in the Caribbean? Touring vineyards in Tuscany? View profiles of people just like you who are making a great living exploring new places, meeting new people, and having a great time doing it.

Nicole Kreigenhofer Instructor and Class Coordinator for ITMI in San Francisco "There is absolutely nothing else I'd rather be doing!" Read More

Chris Brown ITMI Graduate and Professional Tour Director Tour directing makes me feel alive. Read More

Kelly Thomas ITMI Graduate and Professional Tour Director "ITMI changed my life forever, and in a most amazing way." Read More

Donna Primas ITMI Graduate and Professional Tour Director I love the mix of things and the diversity. Read More

Art Jones ITMI Graduate and Professional Tour Director "Through ITMI I learned the skills and made the contacts and have had success and fun being a tour director." Read More

If you have dreamed of a career that challenges you to learn and grow while discovering the world click here to learn more.