Heart of England Tourism

Welcome to our Association website.

You can find details of more than 70 professionally-qualified tourist guides for the region, all holding the prestigious "Blue Badge".  The Blue badge is gained after a rigorous training course and a series of examinations.

But there's more to being a guide than that.  We all don't just TELL people about our part of England ... we LOVE it, too!

The West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and North Oxfordshire;  -  there's no shortage of history from wars & battlefields, the Gunpowder Plot to Shakespeare;  Cathedrals, palaces & castles;  gardens & countryside;   theatres & galleries  & much, much more  in the Heart of England.

Enjoy!  Enjoy what the region has to offer, and enjoy it with a Blue Badge Guide.  You don't know what you are missing until you get your own Guide to tell you!

Ian Jelf

Chairman, Heart of England Tourist Guides Association