Tourist Guide/Manager - Career Queries

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

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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

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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

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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

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