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What do Tour Guides Do?

Contents

  • Would you like to become a Tour Guide?
  • What do Tour Guides Do?
  • Why would you want to become a Tour Guide?
  • How to Develop and Grow a Viable and Sustainable Tourism Business

Contents

  • Would you like to become a Tour Guide?
  • What do Tour Guides Do?
  • Why would you want to become a Tour Guide?
  • How to Develop and Grow a Viable and Sustainable Tourism Business

What do Tour Guides Do?

The work of Tourist Guides includes:

Visitors listening to Men of the Mournes tour guide.
  • Coach tours
  • Walking tours
  • Museum and Gallery and tours
  • Cruise ship excursions
  • Driver guiding
  • Conferences & Incentives
  • Meet and greet – airport/railway station transfers
  • Hospitality desks
  • Familiarisation and press trips

Assets and Attributes of Tourist Guides:

  • flexible and adaptable
  • friendly and approachable
  • trustworthy
  • open minded and tolerant
  • sense of humour
  • knowledgeable
  • creative and confident
  • full of integrity and enthusiasm
  • positive attitude and professional

Responsibilities and Liabilities of Tourist Guides

As a Tourist Guide you are responsible:

  • Towards the attraction/ city/country/region you guide in
  • To promote it à enthuse your visitors to return. You are an ambassador!
  • Towards the guests: you must respect your guests and their background and relate to their individual intellectual and emotional level. You have a duty of care!
  • Towards sustainability: you must be a role model to your guests and inspire them to behave responsibly towards the environment, communities they visit and to support the local economy.

As a Tourist Guide you are liable:

  • To your tour operator/agency or employer
  • Towards guests: you must ensure that the guests get everything they have paid for.

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