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Tour Guides escort individuals or groups on sightseeing tours or through places of interest, such as industrial establishments, public buildings, and art galleries. They describe tour points of interest to group members, and respond to questions. They monitor visitors' activities to ensure compliance with establishment or tour regulations and safety practices. They also distribute brochures, show audiovisual presentations, and explain establishment processes and operations at tour sites.
Tour guides work in the travel industry, giving guided tours to groups of visitors. They are experts on the history of the location and offer their tour groups interesting or enlightening information about points of interest at nature attractions, historic sites, museums, scenic locations, and other travel destinations. Guides may give walking tours, bus tours, or even lead river tours on a boat. Often hired by visitors' bureaus or travel companies, tour guides are typically residents of the region in which they give tours. In starting it seems difficult but in actual its really interesting.
Be it adventure tourism, heritage tourism or eco tourism, India has it all. To add to this, business travel is increasing as India becomes an attractive destination and provider f services to the world. Health tourism is the latest attraction for international visitors, but NRIs are also looking at India for quality healthcare at very reasonable rates. Top level positions are there in the civil services cadre and hence prospects for promotion of second level staff to the top level posts are not all that promising. The best prospects for qualified tourism professionals are in the private sector
Tourism as a subject could be offered at the undergraduate level as also in vocational colleges in the country. Polytechnics also offer training programmes in certain aspects of tourism and travel, for example ticketing and conservation. This level of qualification leads to jobs in travel agencies , as well as in government departments, airlines and hotels but does not offer prospects for much growth and promotion in the industry. The most professional training in travel and tourism is available in the form of the post graduate diploma and degree programmes provided by many universities
No matter how much training you get, and no matter how much experience you have, you will only be a successful tour guide, if you have specific natural skills and talents. Great Public Speaking and Narration Skills Great Problem Solving Skills Extraordinary Organizational and Leadership Skills Great Language Skills an unmistakable fascination in expressions of the human experience, history and other related subjects, for example, design great authoritative abilities for arranging visits the capacity to deal with your time successfully an attention to wellbeing and security issues There are man
Hello, this is one of such interesting expectations one could have in their career. Meeting new people and travelling a lot could actually happen the most in these five job profiles mentioned below. I shall describe them one by one in here. 1. Sales and marketing:You can work for sales and marketing department in any organization. Typically if you are involved with consumer products marketing, you may be involved with a lot of travelling. Consumer goods often require to compete well in the market, keeping in mind the ever growing competitors in the same industry. As a sales/ marketing man
There are not hard and fast rigid rules for getting the job of a Tourist Guide or Manager. However there are quite a few things that will be the matter of concern for the employer if you want to go for this job. Please read below for the further information. 1. You need to have a management degree as most of the well known tourism agencies will prefer people with that qualification. The management degree could be different. There are quite a few universities that offer degree or diploma in the tourism management sector. If you have that then it's enough. In case you do not have such degre
Hello Bhawna.. Travel and Tourism course is the best field to those who are interested to build a career in travel, Airlines, Tourism sector, Event management etc. You can also be an entrepreneur in the field. Major institutes to pursue BSc or BBA courses in Travel and Tourism or Hospitality management etc are Christ University, Gems B School, Lovely Professional University, University of Mumbai, SRM university etc. You may can get good exposure and learning environment with practical experiences if you are pursuing courses in such institutes. Scholarships are also provided in these univ
Hi There, Interesting career choice. You could work in a tourists office as a help desk or ticketing or as a tour planner or as a tour guide. Also you could start your own tourism agency. You could also collaborate with various hotels and airline industry to promote tourism there too. But please note that any tourism course you opt for, whether it is a 6 months diploma or a 3 years graduate course, the course must be IATA / UFTA recognised. They are the tourism governing bodies. Hope this helps. Wish you good luck
Hello Aspirant, Welcome to CareerGuide.com!!! Thanks for writing to us. The [tourism sector][1] is one of the largest sector earning high revenue industry in India. India is a diverse nation in terms of geography,history,culture and language, so the scope for travel and tourism is wide in India.[The estimates report by the Ministry of Tourism,Government of India released in November 2011][2] ,about 5.78 million international tourists visited various parts of the country during the year 2010,which was 11.8% more than that in the year 2009,and earning about $14.19 USD in 2010. In addition to th
People generally develop a myth that MBA is relevant to only those involved in banking, finance, administration and the services industry. Not to be forgotten, Tourism industry is indeed a service industry. So I would highly accept that doing an MBA is definitely valid in the tourism industry. However people working in the tourism sector can actually take advantage of two different types of MBA programs. 1. General MBA:For someone who works in the administrative department within a tourism company, doing a general MBA with either accounts/ finance/ human resources will be of a great help.
Dear Student, The lucrative work opportunities are available in both private as well as public sector for tourism professionals. Tourism as a subject is offered at the undergraduate level as also in vocational colleges in the country. Polytechnics also offer various training programs in certain aspects of tourism and travel , for example in ticketing and reservation. This kind of qualification leads to jobs in travel agencies as well as in government departments , airlines and hotels . The most professional training in travel and tourism is available in the form of postgradua
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