The Blue Badge is awarded after 18 months of intense training and testing in a variety of  specialty subjects among which are history, architecture, geography, monarchy, government, agriculture and countryside, law  and social development of the country.

Apart from the core subjects, the guides undertake in depth study of places like Windsor Castle,  St Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London, the British Museum, a London Gallery, Westminster Abbey, Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon, Windsor, Stonehenge, Salisbury, the Cotswolds, Bath and Canterbury.

Those who successfully complete all the stages of training are then awarded with the Blue Badge, a hallmark of excellence recognised by the tourism industry worldwide, and have their name added to the Institute's of Tourist Guiding Register of Guides.

Blue Badge Guides are allowed to guide in Windsor Castle, the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Kensington Palace, St Paul's' Cathedral, Oxford and Cambridge Colleges or the Birthplace of Shakespeare. 

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