Your hotel reservations are already handled and staff members are
waiting for you to show up, anxious to make sure your visit is
enjoyable. You find that your hotel is comfortable and inviting, your
meals are pre-arranged and delicious, your expenses are paid for, and
you are traveling with 50 people who have been all over the world and
are full of interesting stories.
Are you with us so far?
Now imagine that that is your job, to travel everywhere with these people, to introduce them to the wonders of travel, to inform them about what they see, to solve whatever problems arise, to show them the best of what there is to see and do, and always, always, to provide excellent service.
You are paid to be there, collecting your income from wages, tips, and perhaps commissions. Your lodging, food and admissions are paid for, even your positioning expenses so that you arrive at the point of departure ahead of the guests. And not only are you paid in money, you are rewarded with opportunities to travel, meet interesting people, have new experiences. And all at the most desirable locations.
Tours don't go to the worst spots, they go to the best ones. Tour directors help people's dreams come true, including their own.
You are a tour director, the person at the front of the bus with the microphone, the one who escorts tours longer than a day, moving them from one wonderful place to another through the time span of the tour.
Are you with us so far?
Now imagine that that is your job, to travel everywhere with these people, to introduce them to the wonders of travel, to inform them about what they see, to solve whatever problems arise, to show them the best of what there is to see and do, and always, always, to provide excellent service.
You are paid to be there, collecting your income from wages, tips, and perhaps commissions. Your lodging, food and admissions are paid for, even your positioning expenses so that you arrive at the point of departure ahead of the guests. And not only are you paid in money, you are rewarded with opportunities to travel, meet interesting people, have new experiences. And all at the most desirable locations.
Tours don't go to the worst spots, they go to the best ones. Tour directors help people's dreams come true, including their own.
You are a tour director, the person at the front of the bus with the microphone, the one who escorts tours longer than a day, moving them from one wonderful place to another through the time span of the tour.
- Or you are a tour leader, bicycling through Provence in France, getting everyone up that last long hill to camp.
- Or you are a tour guide, specializing in one location, perhaps Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado or Acadia National Park in Maine, spending a day at a time with groups and sharing with them the culture, history, and challenges of life in this area, before they move on to another location, and you work with another
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