particular place or region and return home the same night.
Tour Guides and Tour
managers act as an interface between tourists and travel agents. The success of the tour
depends on them. They also act as an intermediary between
the tourists and the host
population.
This
book
outlines
important
information related to guiding as a profession. Tour
Guides and Tour Managers work as freelancers. It’s
very rarely that they are permanently employed with
one organization. These people can be of any age
group. If you wish to work as a tour guide you must
enjoy meeting people, travelling places and serving others.
2.10
Tourist Guides, Tour Manager and other related jobs
Literally, a guide is someone who tells you the way. A tour guide leads you on the tour,
he directs you, and he is the informal ambassador of that country and creates a picture of
the place in the mind of tourists.
Guides must be humorous, dynamic, smart, mature and
extroverted. He should have good physical stamina and good knowledge, as well as being
charming, flexible, honest, motivated and aware about his business. A person who guides
visitors in a particular language, and interprets the cultural and natural heritage of an area
is known as a tour guide. Tour Guiding is an activity in which a guide interacts with
tourists. Guiding is an exciting feature of the tourism profession. They are truly the soul
of the tour; guiding is in fact an amalgamation of several independent roles. Thus while
they retain a poll of these individual roles such as that of an entertainer, an educator, or
even the public relations man in their region/place, they cannot be made to fit in one role
exclusively. They retain an independent identity of their own. It
is this identity that makes
them lively and delightful in the view of the tourists.
2.11 Summary
Future Guides
Virtual Guide
Audio Guide
Integrated approach
Tour guiding is an activity that involves taking tourists to a tourist attraction and
engaging him by interacting about the place and its background.
Tour guiding is a
dynamic activity.