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Post :
Travel guide
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Time :
Full Time
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Salary :
Negotaible
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No. of Vacancy :
2
A tourist guide is a person who checks and plans all the accommodation facilities and travel arrangements for a group of tourists. The job of a tourist guide is both challenging and interesting. He is like a storyteller who shares information such as the history of a particular place, the culture and other interesting things with the tourists. He is the one responsible for conducting guided tours of a place or an area and also ensures that he answers guests' queries.
Apart from the academic requirements, a tourist guide must have a set of other skills, which are as follows:
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Outgoing Personality
- Good Memory
- Friendly Nature
- Punctual & Passionate
- Good Decision-Making Skills
- Good sense of humour
- Presentation skill
#OVERVIEW
Some of the major duties of a tourist guide are monitoring the safety of guests, reciting and memorizing the tour scripts, handling customer service interactions, such as transaction and payment and guiding directions and areas to the guests. Candidates who have good knowledge and an interest in exploring the tourist attractions along with good communication skills can choose a career as a tourist guide. In addition to this, he must have social etiquettes. Tourist guides are hired by tour and travel agencies, for the management related tasks of various tourist attractions and travel-related websites.
Salary of a tourist guide is not fixed. His annual salary will depend on his experience as well as knowledge about the destinations. Candidates who have good knowledge and experience will earn more. The salary structure is also given below:
#EXPERIENCE
- Degree or certification in tourism and travel.
- Tourist guides must be experienced enough to handle all the queries raised by the tourists.
- Minimum work experience of 1 year is required.
Candidates should satisfy the minimum eligibility requirements decided below in order to work as a tourist guide
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Outgoing Personality
- Good Memory
- Friendly Nature
- Punctual & Passionate
- Good Decision-Making Skills
- Good sense of humour