Becoming A Tour Guide

Have you ever wanted to become a Tour Guide but not known where to start? Do you yearn to travel the world, explore exotic locations and lead groups of people around unfamiliar places like it's your own backyard?This book can help you become a Tour Guide. It will teach you what you need to say, how to advertise your services and even how to get paid. It will teach you how to start your first tour, how to get repeat business after you've finished it and even what life is really like 'out there on the road'.Written by a Tour Guide with experience in guided tours across 15 countries and with contributions from experts all across the world, there's no better place to start one of the best careers in the world than this book.Nick Manning's How to be a tour guide: the essential training manual for tour managers and tour guides is the ultimate reference book and training tool, as used and proved by Tour Guides across the world every day."Nick Manning lets you know just how big the world is and how many different rules there are while taking you under his wings and navigating you through the aspects of successful tour managing and guiding. This book tells you how to become a GREAT tour manager/guide and is written in a way that will connect with you". - Kristene Murphy"Quite simply the best product available to aspiring tour guides on the market today. No industry professional should be without it." - Industry Insider

Becoming a Tour Guide provides valuable guidance in establishing a career path in the industry. Packed with practical tips, useful advice and real-life case studies drawn from all the different areas of the industry, it tells you which jobs are most suited to your skills, how to develop those skills further, where to look for jobs and training and how to further your career once you've begun work. It finishes with a list of contact details of useful organizations and associations, as well as suggestions for further reading.

Whether you want to become a tour guide or are already working in the industry, How to Be an Award-Winning Tour Guide can help transform your guiding skills from basic to brilliant and open new doors to one of the world’s most exciting professions. Written by award-winning tour operators and tour guide trainers, this book is loaded with insight, personal experiences, industry knowledge, anecdotes, hints, humour, hands-on exercises and sound advice. With their combined 40 years’ experience in tourism and communications, the authors know how important a good tour guide is to delivering a quality visitor experience. Now they’re sharing their knowledge with you. How to Be an Award-Winning Tour Guide is essential reading for tour guides, tour operators, coach drivers, hoteliers, wholesalers, retailers, students, educators, employers, travel writers, tourism officials, visitor centre employees, venue managers or anyone involved in the tourism industry.

Travel the world and discover a job you love.Whether you just want a job that lets you travel the world for free, or you're looking for a career that lets you set your own hours and do what you love, this book will show you how to become a tour guide with clear, practical advice and easy to follow steps.It will teach you what you need to say, how to advertise your services and how the pros make their money (and get great tips!). It will teach you how to start your first tour, how to get repeat business after you've finished it and even what life is really like 'out there on the road.'Written by a Tour Guide with guided tour experience in over 15 countries, and with contributions from experts all across the world, there's no better way to start one of the best careers in the world than with the ultimate reference book and training tool - as used by Tour Guides across the world every day.Covering topics such as:How to plan, design and price your first tourEffective offline and online marketing strategies that workHow to researchHow to 'value add'Leading and controlling large groupsHow much you can realistically expect to earnCommon industry jargonHow to create a great first impressionHow to deal with complaints (and how to avoid them in the first place!)"Quite simply the best product available to aspiring tour guides on the market today. No industry professional should be without it." – Industry Insider"Nick Manning lets you know just how big the world is and how many different rules there are while taking you under his wings and navigating you through the aspects of successful tour managing and guiding. This book tells you how to become a GREAT tour manager/guide and is written in a way that will connect with you". – Kristene Murphy

This book provides an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of tour guiding scholarship and research. It aims to foster best practice and to stimulate further study and research on tour guiding across a range of disciplines. The book is well-illustrated and its accessible style with chapter summaries makes it ideal for students as well as researchers.

You have a passion for your village, town, city, suburb and region or you have a love of something unique, which you would love to share with others. In this book, I will teach you all I know to arm you with the knowledge and skills to design and craft walking tours. You are multi-talented, so you can use this information (the basic theory behind guiding) to create something special for your town, village, area, region, or community. And in whatever niche you find your passion.This book is divided into 7 sections: What is guiding? You the guide: What you say (your content) Presenting: How you say it (skills and communication) The Group: Why you say it (what they want to see and hear) Create your Walking Tour Questions & Answers Professional Tips By the end of this book, you should understand the following: The skills needed to lead a walking tour. What goes into making a good walking tour. Guiding and communication skills How to handle visitors and take good care of them Tourism opportunities in and around the town of the area where you are guiding. You will not learn how to lead a walking tour from only reading a book. You need to practise and go out and DO! At the end of every section in this book, you will find an activity. These questions and tasks will form the foundation of your walks and give you a wider understanding of your role as a walking tour guide.

is highly recommended for tourism schools and travel industries. This course book is intended for pre-intermediate tourism students majoring in and travel employees of tour guiding services. It provides materials for improving the four language skills and developing the knowledge and understanding required to become professional tour guides. This practical book provides very systematic guides for learners to practice communication within tour guide services. By employing a wide range of creative activities, this book aims: 1. To practice welcoming tourists, giving and asking information, preparing tour itineraries, orientation meeting and briefing, guiding commentary on the way, giving local food information, telling a legend, suggesting places of interest to visit, dealing with unexpected events, handling customer complaints, explaining safety, rule, etiquette and customs, reporting tour activity, designing tourist brochures, planning packaged tours, etc. 2. To enable learners to self-study practicing the language both in written and spoken forms through guided, semi-guided, and free learning activities. 3. To help learners improve their fl uency and accuracy in using the language throughout their future careers. ENGLISH FOR PROFESSIONAL TOUR GUIDING SERVICES is written by an experienced academic instructor of the language. This book is used widely by tourism school students, travel employees, and tour guides all over Indonesia.

Returning to Lahore after almost a decade, wandering London guide and community worker Saira Niazi reflects on what it means to belong on both a personal and a universal level. In a series of personal essays on topics including exploration, love, faith, transience, mental health and being a woman of colour, Niazi shares her strange and unlikely journey towards becoming a wandering guide. She draws upon the stories, experiences, and insights of the extraordinary people she has met along the way, from monks and mudlarks to storytellers and scientists, and celebrates the many different kinds of beautiful lives that exist.