If your dreaming yourself to be a better tour guide then these article may help you in succeeding your dream. You just need to follow mentioned tour guide tips.
Tour guide is almost one of responsible & respectable job in the world but when it comes to guide some places about . I would like to share some tips on professional guiding when it get mixed with efforts and determination will hopefully turns into useful content piece for other and help you being a better tour guide.
A tour guide must have a whole knowledge of contemporary social and political life of a specific area and as well as information about historical places. A tour guides groups or individual tourists to show them and interpret the cultural and natural heritage of the are they visit.
Some Easiest & Practical Tour Guide Tips For Better Tour Guide:
Welcoming Tourists And Introducing Yourself:
Always the first impression is good for yourself & with your business and in any field. Some words to use for introducing yourself is given below:
Dear guest; let me introduce myself. My name is ------ and I'm your guide. ORGood Morning. My name is ------ and I will be your guide for this tour. OR
Hello everyone. I'm ------ , your guide for this tour. OR
On behalf of ----- I would like to welcome you all to -----(your name).
Historical Knowledge:
A tour guide must have a whole information about historical places and architect. Tour guide always must have search new historical places & find such information related to that place. And whole study on that topic.
Knowing Different Language:
Tourist are coming from the different places of the world and as well as their language is different from you. So tour guide is important to have knowing different languages.
Act Professionally:
Generally, a tour choose a good place to give a relaxed environment out of our house. However, as a tour guide, you are still selling a professional service and should act accordingly.. It is important to act professionally in order to establish authority and credibility with your tourist. Also, small but important details such as being punctual, greeting tourists warmly, dressing well, and being courteous and attentive, helps you build rapport with your tourist. A good Guide is storytellers, entertainers, teachers, and professionals as they provide a service in exchange for compensation and Always friendly with our tourists.
Time Management:
Tourists are coming from different place of the world with the limited period of time. So your work is to aware of places by giving information related with architect their tourists within the period of time.
Use Some Phrases During The Couch:
Please keep your seat-belt fastened at all times. In a few minutes we will be pulling up to the hotel. In a few minutes we’ll be passing ... Our next stop is ... On your right/left you can see ... The bus will be leaving at ... sharp. Please be back at the bus at ... On your right/left hand side you will see ... Please remain seated untill we come to a full stop. The bus ride will take ... The bus ride to the hotel/stadium/beach will take about ... Now I’d like to familiarize you with the area.
The Art of Guiding:
The speciality of good guide is heart-touching with your tourist. Friendly environment with your tourist by questioning and answering together with kindly speaking.
Continuous To Learn & Improve:
A good tour guide should continuously work on fine-tuning the tour to make it an exceptional one. He/she can identify the place that require improvement by paying attention to guests. By asking your guests some questions & answering theirs, and by encouraging guest feedback at the end of a tour. A good tour is always to find a new historical places in the word to improve our knowledge. And search related information of that topics.
