The Malaysian Tourist Guides Council (MTGC) is a national professional guild representing licensed tour guides across Malaysia. Registered on June 28, 1976, it focuses on guide welfare, upskilling, ongoing tourism-related education, and acting as a bridge between practitioners and the government.

MTGC holds quarterly meetings throughout the country to discuss tourism-related activities of state and national events and policies that affect both the tourism and tourist guiding areas, initiating a host of programmes towards achieving its goals, including finding solutions to many of the problems constantly faced by the industry and the tourist guides.

Over the years, among the major pertinent issues implemented by MTGC were surveys conducted to improve the profession, assisting in the formulation of NOSS (National Occupational Skill Standards) for tourist guides, coordinating and organising of tourist guides upskilling programmes known as Continuing Tourism Related education (CTRE) for licensed tourist guides, supporting and participation in governmental and non-governmental tourism events and the constant and regular liaison role played between the tourist guiding trade and the government. In other sectors, MTGC played a major role in cooperating with other organisations, such as the Tourism Productivity Nexus (TPN) under the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) and many other career and charitable enhancing activities both at the state and national levels.

MTGC adopted a new set of Constitution approved by the Registrar of Societies on the 2 April 2008 paving the path for the Council with a set of rules and regulations projecting objectives, accountability and transparency to embark upon a challenging journey of ‘transformation’ encompassing the following identified tasks undertaken:

As the lay of the land has changed dramatically over the past decades, the old map inherited bears past ‘bearings’ that are of no use today. Restructuring, therefore, was unavoidable, and it represents the Council's hopes for a united front not only for the present but also for future generations of the tourist guiding community.

As a united front representing the tourist guiding profession, MTGC is prepared and continues to work with its affiliates, trade-related organisations and the tourism authorities to serve tourists visiting Malaysia, find best practices and solutions, and move progressively into a new era serving the hospitality industry.