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Specifics of working as a guide

Let's say you came to an unfamiliar city or even country. You are interested in everything: culture, history, traditions and customs of the indigenous inhabitants, architecture, and local cuisine. Of course, you will need a guide. This is relatively young profession, but it is of high demand now. Tourism grows and develops nowadays. There is always a demand for young qualified personnel. Note the prestige of the profession. Prestige is the specifics of the work, which involves all sorts of excursions and travels to different countries, acquaintance with interesting and influential people.

That's why a professional guide needs to have a great knowledge of foreign languages, history, literature, geography, music, painting, architecture, aesthetics, psychology, as well as higher education, erudition, etc.

The main task of the guide is to lead the tourists in road tours, cruises and excursions. 

Guide`s duties

Guide's responsibilities include the following:

1) developing the route. The route is chosen in accordance with the theme and purpose of excursion; he should determine the time of the trip, the frequency and duration of stops, the number of objects, take into account the type of audience.

2) preparation of the text of the excursion. The guide examines the books, articles; meets with archival documents; collects interesting, previously unknown facts and histories.
3) meeting the tourist group, organization of excursions according to the itinerary.

The peculiarities of career growth
If there is a demand for specific professions, then there are the prospects of career growth. Tourism organizations can offer a guide transition to the position of a manager. Also, you can arrange your own travel business. It should be noted that fees for guide accompanying abroad, particularly in the countries of Western Europe, significantly differ from the wages of guides, who work in domestic museums.

Requirements to the guide
The guide should have such qualities as communication skills, ability to work with the audience, a clear and competent speech, good voice, and artistry. Every profession has its difficulties. A large portion of their time the guides spend on their feet and in different weather conditions. They don't always have time to dine, sleep, and relax. Therefore, the guide is considered to be a hardy specialist. Also, the guide should be patient. There are different tourists: some of them can ask tricky or stupid questions.

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