Munich is a magnet for visitors from all over the world. München Tourismus 2025 has once again trained new guides to help them explore the city and its many attractions. 18 new official tour guides are now ready to take Munich fans on exciting discovery tours.
After an intensive five-month training programme with over 370 hours of training, the new guides are ideally prepared to convey Munich's history, culture and current developments in a lively and entertaining way. In addition to tours in German and English, the new guides also offer tours in French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and - brand new to the portfolio - in Polish, Estonian, Filipino and Romanian. This makes Munich's rich history even more accessible and personalised for guests from all over the world.
With the new experts, the team of active official tour guides has grown to around 170, all of whom are highly motivated to share their enthusiasm and knowledge of Munich and make every tour an unforgettable experience.
The training programme for the guides is as varied as Munich itself: In addition to visits to all the important sights and institutions, the 2025 programme included specialist lectures on history and art history as well as a beer seminar. The guides were given exclusive behind-the-scenes insights into places such as the Justizpalast (Palace of Justice) or the Nationaltheater (National Theatre), experienced a tent roof tour over the Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium), explored the Allianz Arena and Munich's typical neighbourhoods.
During a visit to the concentration camp memorial in Dachau, they had the opportunity to speak with contemporary witness and Holocaust survivor Eva Umlauf. The programme also included excursions into the surrounding area: the future guides got to know the Royal Palace and the exhibition on the Constitutional Convention on Herrenchiemsee, as well as Kloster Weltenburg (Weltenburg Abbey), Walhalla and the Befreiungshalle (Liberation Hall). Methodology and didactics training as well as intercultural training round off the programme and ensure that the guided tours are not only informative, but also lively and tailored to the needs of a wide range of visitor groups.
München Tourismus takes on the qualification of the guides together with the Münchner Gästeführerverein (MGV) e.V. The training takes place according to the guidelines of the Bundesverband der Gästeführerinnen und Gästeführer in Deutschland (BVGD) as well as according to European standards (DIN EN). Only those who pass the demanding final examination in theory and practice can call themselves an ‘Official Guide of the City of Munich’. Guided tours can be booked here.
