APT 2025 Fall Training Program
“A Guide’s View of Philadelphia,” the APT annual lecture series, is the city’s only officially recognized training program for “professional and informed” guides (per City Council 2013 Proclamation). The series includes informational lectures on Philadelphia’s history, culture, and architecture from colonial times to present day as well as sessions on tour guiding techniques.
In 2025 the Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) departed slightly from its traditional lecture series format to offer a mixture of lectures and tours for new and experienced guides from Thursday-Sunday November 13-16. The title of this year’s training was “19th Century Growing Pains or We The People… Now What?” The training focused on our nation’s struggles to put the idea of our new country into practice after we won the Revolutionary War and got our Constitution in place. Check out the press release.
Many thanks to our sponsors, Visit Philadelphia and Miles Table!
Upcoming Training Events Include:
The certification exam will be offered March 14.