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ProcedureEdit
Apply In-Person
- To apply for a Tourist Guide Card, an applicant should visit the Ministry of Tourism and Air Transport Directorate of Tourism Regulations office or the nearest Regional Tourism Services office to apply. (please view address details under office location and contact section below).
- Express your interest to the receptionist/ secretariat front desk and collect all the necessary Tourist Guide Card Application forms and fill them accurately.
- Submit the completed forms, attach to the supporting document file {as listed under the required document section below} to the department concerned attending officer.
- The officer will then verify, if all the necessary information and documents have been provided and that the applications comply with the selection criteria.
- It is only after the deposit of the complete file, that the application file will be forwarded to the component department for processing and assessment.
- If approved the Tourist Guide Card will be drawn up, signed, and stamped by the authorized official then issued to the applicant against his/her identity card immediately.
Apply Online
- Applicants should visit the TéléDac website via this link Link and log in with your credential (user name and password) if already registered.
- If you do not have an account, click on CREATE AN ACCOUNT tab, fill out the registration form accurately, and then click on the REGISTER tab.
- An account activation link will be sent to the email address, you had registered with, click on the link, you will then be re-directed to the TéléDac platform, enter your (user name and password), and then click on the TO LOG IN tab to access your account.
- Upon login, click on the PROCEDURES tab located on the right side of your computer screen, you will be redirected to the next page, select TOURISM option, then click on REQUEST FOR A TOURIST GUIDE CARD HOLDER option.
- You will then be re-directed to the application forms page, proceed with the application process by filling out all the mandatory questions accurately, attach all the required documents as listed on the site, validate that all the information you have provided is accurate before submitting it.
- You will then receive a confirmation mail via your email address, confirming that your application file has been taken into consideration.
- Your application will then be forward to the nearest Regional Tourism Services office for processing.
- If approved, the applicant will be notified of the outcome by mail/phone and given further instruction on where to collect the tourist guide card, against the applicant identification document and the acknowledgment letter/approval letter.
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Required DocumentsEdit
- A Handwritten request addressed to the Ministry of Tourism;
- Birth certificate less than three (03) months old;
- Extract from the Judicial Record dated less than three (03) months;
- Medical Certificate of Visit and Counter Visit;
- Legalized copies of diplomas obtained (higher diploma in tourism, minimum bac +2 (BTS in tourism or equivalent diploma in the following fields: art, culture, language, botany, fauna, etc.) ;
- Two (02) Identity Photos;
- One (01) Fiscal stamp of five thousand CFA francs (5,000 FCFA);
- Legalized copy of the national identity card.
Office Locations & ContactsEdit
MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND AIR TRANSPORT
Directorate of Tourism Regulations office
Address: Sphère Ministèrielle 2 - Bâtiment C Diamniadio
Telephone: (+221) 33 869 26 90
Fax: (+221) 33 826 07 77
BP: 4049 - Dakar, SENEGAL
E-mail address: [email protected] / [email protected] .sn
Ministry Contact details link: Link
Website: Link
EligibilityEdit
Applicant should meet the following criteria;
- Be of Senegalese nationality or be a national of a country granting reciprocity to nationals of the Republic of Senegal;
- Be physically fit;
- Not to have been sentenced to any penalty for felony or misdemeanor;
- Be at least 18 years old
FeesEdit
- Fiscal stamp of five thousand CFA francs (5,000 FCFA).
ValidityEdit
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Processing TimeEdit
- Within the day
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InstructionsEdit
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Required InformationEdit
- Full name of the applicant
- Nationality
- Date/place of birth
- Age/gender
- Identity card number
- Contact details
- Residential address details
- Educational qualification background
- Declaration by the applicant
Need for the DocumentEdit
- The tourism guide card is an administrative document issued to a person who wishes to work as a tourist guide.
Information which might helpEdit
- A tourist guide is a person that links the travel agency and the tourist, he/she plays a very important role in the stay of visitors in Senegal and his/her main mission is to support tourists on their excursions and visits by providing information and explanations.
- Tourist guides are classified into two categories:
- The titular guides have the particularity of exercising their function of a tourist guide on the whole extent of the territory and in all fields (botany, culture-heritage, art, fauna, etc.);
- Auxiliary guides for their part only work in a defined tourist pole or a limited area.
Other uses of the Document/CertificateEdit
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