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Apr 22, 2024 · Properly training your tour guides — sometimes called tourist guides or tour directors — is an investment of time and resources. A well-trained and experienced guide can turn your tour into an extraordinary experience for your guests, whereas an undertrained, inexperienced guide can cost you dearly in negative reviews and sometimes worse.
The British Guild of Tourist Guides has been training provider for a number of courses including Heart of England, Yorkshire, North East England, Cumbria and Chester. The Guild is currently Training Provider for the courses listed below.
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Despite what the first glance at How to Be a Tour Guide: The Essential Training Manual for Tour Managers & Tour Guides(opens in a new tab)by Nick Manning tells you, this is not just a book for novices. You could be a well-seasoned tour guide who has never quite got your price right, maybe you’ve always struggled to manage large groups, or maybe you...
How can you get ahead in an area saturated with tour operators? Check your unique selling points! If you can restructure your business to be more sustainable and responsible, you can gain access to a new audience and move ahead of competitors. We are always mentioning sustainable tourism as agrowing sector in our industry trends. Susan Guyette’s Su...
If you don’t already have Sell More Tours: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing for Day Tour & Activity Operators(opens in a new tab) written by our very own Founder, Matthew Newton, you might be missing a trick. For those struggling to rank on Google, for those that find SEO strategies an uphill struggle, or those who are getting frustrated wit...
You may be happy with your website and sales, but are disappointed with the content on your tours. Have you been doing the same routes and commentary for years and are ready for a change? Spicing things up for your guests is easier said than done but, as The Power of Moments(opens in a new tab)by Chip Heath tells us, it’s a key component for succes...
Have you ever had to manage a group of guests or guides that clashed due to cultural differences? Or maybe you’ve accidentally offended prospective guests by making a cultural faux-pas? For your marketing, sales, and tour processes, knowing how to navigate and understand the cultural differences in your audience could be the key to helping you stan...
It’s been a tough year for the tourism industry and we wouldn’t blame you if it has pushed you into falling out of love with the industry. But maybe it isn’t falling out of love, just forgetting why we love it. To end this article on a positive note, we want to share a book that reminds us of all the hilarious and life-changing moments that make be...
How to become a tourist guide. The Institute of Tourist Guiding is responsible for accrediting professional training courses, setting recognised standards for examinations and awarding the coveted Blue, Green or White Badge. Working as a professional tourist guide is an incredibly rewarding career.
While the text is intended as essential reading for a course on tour guiding, a combination of chapters can be used as training material for tour guide training programmes. Any academic work is, at best, a work in progress, and there is always room for improvement.
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Aug 25, 2014 · 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...
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