Welcome to Helsinki
- the Daughter of the Baltic

A trained tourist guide can provide you with a wealth of interesting information about Helsinki and Finland. Please see below for more information about Helsinki tourist guides:

Official
Tourist Guides

The city of Helsinki has approximately 300 official tourist guides. All the guides have received a compulsory one-year basic training period.

Official guides are required to pass the European Council’s standard language test for all the languages they wish to guide in that are not their own mother tongue.

Guiding
Languages

Official Helsinki guides speaking a total of 25 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai language, Turkish

The Guide
Associations

Official tourist guides are required to update their knowledge at annual training courses throughout their guiding career. The two bodies responsible for overseeing the guide training are Helsingfors Auktoriserade Turistguider rf (chairman Camilla Nordblad) and Helsingin Turistioppaat ry (chairman Sisko Kulin).

You can contact the Guide Associations by e-mail: helsinkiguides(at)helsinkiguides.fi

How to book
a guide?

The guide association does not hire guides out but they do provide and update lists of working guides for the companies that employ guides. You can ask you travel agency to contact for example the following Incoming agencies - matkatoimistot to book a trained official guide.

How to recognize
a trained guide?

Official guides can be recognised by their uniform of green jackets and silver badges sporting the Helsinki crest.

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