I WRITE regarding your story Guides Offer New City Tours (Oxford Mail, April 15).

Since 1980 The Oxford Guild of Tourist Guides, together with the Oxford Tourist Information Centre, has offered daily tours throughout the year.

This is still the case, and walking tours leave the centre in the morning and afternoon.

Over time, visitors have requested tours that concentrate on particular aspects for which Oxford is famous – such as Alice, Morse and famous writers.

Oxford has also been the backdrop for many films, and to many of our visitors this is their key to discovering the delights of our city.

Since 1997 The Inspector Morse Tour has run every Saturday at 1.30pm, and the Family Tour, which started in 2003, every weekday in the school holiday at 1.30pm. Both have proved very popular.

Tours Assistant Digna Martinez, with the support of Anne Gallagher at the Tourist Information Centre has over the past three years produced a programme of themed tours covering 18 themes which run from April to the end of October.

This has enabled returning visitors, and local people who enjoy taking their friends on tours, to discover more about the city.

Our website allows those planning a few days in Oxford to book in advance.

This year’s programme includes tours based on children’s stories, gargoyles & grotesques, and sciences – to coincide with the Darwin celebrations.

This year the Tourist Information Centre will also be offering a daily tour in other languages on Saturdays in July and August.

Further information can be obtained from the Tourist Information Centre, 15-16 Broad Street, or on visitoxford.org TERRY BREMBLE, President of the Oxford Guild of Tourist Guides