While I agree with your conclusions, I do think tour guides have a fiduciary duty to be accurate. A world where guides play fast and loose with dates - their own version of alternative facts - is a terrifying prospect. Perhaps the International Committee of Tour Guides should look into this.
Is that a real thing? I don't think the gondoliers are members. And I agree, dates are sacrosanct; I expect the information that I get on a tour to be accurate.
While I agree with your conclusions, I do think tour guides have a fiduciary duty to be accurate. A world where guides play fast and loose with dates - their own version of alternative facts - is a terrifying prospect. Perhaps the International Committee of Tour Guides should look into this.
Is that a real thing? I don't think the gondoliers are members. And I agree, dates are sacrosanct; I expect the information that I get on a tour to be accurate.
Doesn't look it. :( But there is a World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (that's a mouthful of a name).