Factors for a good tour guide

Everyone always has their own wish in career. A person wishes to be a teacher, another does a doctor, engineer…for me, my dreamful occupation is a tour guide. But if I want to work as a good tour guide, it is very necessary for me to equip a lot of things, not only I must have a good qualification in tourism, but lots of skills and others such as communicative skill, analyzing and solving problems…besides some characters such as active, social,  humorousness  and sensitive….etc.

Initially, being a tour guide requires me have a good profession. I am excellent on the knowledge on tourism. I must understand specialties of the tourism and a tour guide. Besides I must get knowledge on many parts of the life and society such as culture, history, geography, economy….etc in many areas on the world because tourism combines with landscape, heritage, culture, developing policy…etc. good knowledge on many fields can help me a lot to work as a good tour guide. .if a tour guide is only good at profession, but not acknowledgeable on   many aspects, it is difficult to work well in tourism.

Secondly, besides possessing a good qualification, a tour guide need to equip some very useful skills such as communication , analyzing and solving situations. Communicative skill is very important for all jobs. Especially, it becomes extremely important because tour guide’s responsibility is to make a satification for the tourists who come from may places on over the world. Equipping a good communicative skill can help me easy to convey my words to the tourists, on other hand, they understand what I said faster. Another skill is also very important that is analyzing and solving problems. As you know, there are a lot of different situations happening in the tour. The cases such as tourists lost, get accident, or some situations involving in room services or food safety take place at the hotel, or restaurant require a tour guide know the way to deal with effectively. If I   equip this skill well, it can help me process the problems well, and bring about tourists satification.

Finally, some other elements can be also necessary for a tour guide such as active, sociality, friendliness, sensitiveness, humorousness….all of the tourists like talking with a tour guide who is active, social, friendly, sensitive, and especially humorous. Such a tour guide can make tourists impressive and fancy with the places they come. This make the trip become more successful.

 Good qualification, skills as communication, analyzing and solving problems, or active, sociality, humorousness…are very important factors_ are regarded as key factors all of tour guide must own if they want to get success.