How To Become A Successful Tour Guide?

Learn how to become a great guide and storyteller as well as an independent tourism entrepreneur

What you’ll learn
Learn how to become a great local city guide
Find out how to be a successful entrepreneur in tourism industry
Design and succesfully run your first walking tour
Know how to deal with unexpected situations and your competitors in business

Requirements
No previous guiding experience required

Description
This course has two primary aims.The first is to show you how to become a great local guide. Among other things, we’ll learn about the key characteristics of a good guide, how to prepare an interesting and engaging tour, how to speak in public, how to attract the attention of tourists and how to deal with some of the unexpected events that may occur on your tours.Another equally important goal of this course is to show you how to become a successful entrepreneur, truly your own boss.I’ll show you a new approach to this. Up until now, most guides have been totally dependent on travel agencies, more like contractors who get the jobs they don’t really choose, rather than independent freelancers who control how and with whom they work. My aim is to show you how to be a guide working by your own rules.We’ll discuss how to get bookings, how to market your tours and how to grow as a guide to earn more and more money. I’ll be telling you all these things in a very consistent and direct way, without any unnecessary comments and elaborated speeches. Just a pure knowledge and inside tips. I really hope you’ll like my style.

Overview
Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Who am I?

Lecture 2 What is this course about?

Lecture 3 I don’t know if I’m good enough to be a guide

Lecture 4 Can guiding be a full-time job?

Lecture 5 How much a guide earns?

Lecture 6 Legal issues in your country

Section 2: How to be a good storyteller?

Lecture 7 Knowledge alone is not enough

Lecture 8 Selection of information

Lecture 9 The structure of the speech

Lecture 10 The language of the speech

Lecture 11 Body language and your look

Lecture 12 Top Visual Priority rule

Lecture 13 Dealing with fear of public speaking

Section 3: Choose your tourists

Lecture 14 Different kinds of tourist groups

Lecture 15 Why you should choose your tourists not the other way round?

Lecture 16 Specialize!

Section 4: Designing your first tour

Lecture 17 Designing your first tour

Section 5: How to get a job as a guide?

Lecture 18 Traditional ways of getting bookings

Lecture 19 Modern ways of getting bookings

Lecture 20 One more alternative way to attract your tourists

Section 6: You get your first booking – customer service before and after the tour

Lecture 21 How to take care of your tourists before and after the experience?

Section 7: Handling difficult situations

Lecture 22 Cancellations

Lecture 23 No show

Lecture 24 No availability on your end

Lecture 25 A bad review

Lecture 26 Challenges along the way

Lecture 27 Dealing with questions

Lecture 28 Dealing with competitors

Section 8: How to make more money as a guide?

Lecture 29 Tour guide side hustles ideas

Section 9: General good tips before you go

Lecture 30 General good tips before you go

Anyone who wants to start their new career in tourism