Download or read book Tales and Travails of a Tour Director written by Jeanne Howard and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join me on a journey through the U.S. National Parks, California, and the South Pacific as my tours' adventures yield valuable insights. This is the first in a series of books chronicling the challenges I confronted and the revelations that transformed me during my six-year global odyssey. If misadventure is the best teacher, these vignettes instruct with wit, wisdom, and humor. The calamities that befell my first tour, and my progress during the next seven tours form the basis for this memoir. Laugh and learn how I: juggled last-minute crises side-stepped pitfalls conducted magical, memorable tours Come discover my survival techniques that led to future tours in Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Russia. Jeanne Howard has represented the cruise lines, airlines, hotels, and resorts. Her career progressed from travel agent to national sales manager before conducting domestic and international tours. Currently, she teaches travel courses. [email protected] jeannemhoward.com

Download or read book Tour Director Training Guide written by Cherie Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to be a Tour Guide written by Nick Manning and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel the world and discover a job you love.Whether you just want a job that lets you travel the world for free, or you're looking for a career that lets you set your own hours and do what you love, this book will show you how to become a tour guide with clear, practical advice and easy to follow steps.It will teach you what you need to say, how to advertise your services and how the pros make their money (and get great tips!). It will teach you how to start your first tour, how to get repeat business after you've finished it and even what life is really like 'out there on the road.'Written by a Tour Guide with guided tour experience in over 15 countries, and with contributions from experts all across the world, there's no better way to start one of the best careers in the world than with the ultimate reference book and training tool - as used by Tour Guides across the world every day.Covering topics such as:How to plan, design and price your first tourEffective offline and online marketing strategies that workHow to researchHow to 'value add'Leading and controlling large groupsHow much you can realistically expect to earnCommon industry jargonHow to create a great first impressionHow to deal with complaints (and how to avoid them in the first place!)"Quite simply the best product available to aspiring tour guides on the market today. No industry professional should be without it." – Industry Insider"Nick Manning lets you know just how big the world is and how many different rules there are while taking you under his wings and navigating you through the aspects of successful tour managing and guiding. This book tells you how to become a GREAT tour manager/guide and is written in a way that will connect with you". – Kristene Murphy

Download or read book How to Travel the World Free As an International Tour Director written by Gerald Mitchell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn How to Turn Your Avocation into Your Vocation Be an International Tour Director and design and escort your own tours all around the world. In almost every country, tourism is one of the most significant industries providing jobs for thousands of people and economic advantages many countries would not have otherwise. Governments and private enterprise support the efforts of International Tour Directors who invest in imaginative and innovative tourist programs. By providing travelers with good opportunities to have the trip of their dreams, the professional International Tour Director brings income in to a country and to the tourism business in general. Satisfied customers will go back and encourage their friends to undertake the same type of experiences they have, and this will increase business even more. You may be called upon to design and escort Cruises, Spa Holidays, Student Trips, Senior Citizen Motor Coach Tours, Incentive programs, conventions, and almost whatever specialized group you can think of in London, Paris, New York, Rome, and exotic spots throughout the world. As an International Tour Director you will be expected to have a keen interest and skill in fulfilling the needs of your clients by seeking out and finding unspoiled and relatively undiscovered corners of the world, where facilities such as superb, un-crowded golf courses, fishing, hiking, splendid scenery, uncluttered roads and hospitable restaurants offer your clients the best in unforgettable travel experiences. Being a good communicator, a diplomat, detail oriented, well organized, and highly responsible will help you manage emergencies as well as handle considerable amounts of money in both foreign and local currencies. Many Tour Operators are now recruiting International Tour Directors with a Master's degree in history or some other specialty such as wine, culinary arts, architecture, arts and crafts, or even wildflowers. You are the clients' bridge over "the culture gap"

Download or read book How to Be a Tour Guide written by Nick Manning and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to become a Tour Guide but not known where to start? Do you yearn to travel the world, explore exotic locations and lead groups of people around unfamiliar places like it's your own backyard?This book can help you become a Tour Guide. It will teach you what you need to say, how to advertise your services and even how to get paid. It will teach you how to start your first tour, how to get repeat business after you've finished it and even what life is really like 'out there on the road'.Written by a Tour Guide with experience in guided tours across 15 countries and with contributions from experts all across the world, there's no better place to start one of the best careers in the world than this book.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 Tour Guides across the world every day."Nick Manning lets you know just how big the world is and how many different rules there are while taking you under his wings and navigating you through the aspects of successful tour managing and guiding. This book tells you how to become a GREAT tour manager/guide and is written in a way that will connect with you". - Kristene Murphy"Quite simply the best product available to aspiring tour guides on the market today. No industry professional should be without it." - Industry Insider

Download or read book Coming Up on Your Left written by Joemy Wilson and published by Journeywoman Press. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joemy Wilson takes vacations for a living. As an international tour director, she escorts people to exciting destinations throughout the world and helps make their travel dreams come true. She teams up with local guides, whose job is "to spin stories - stories that entertain, inform, and inspire." In this book, you'll discover the secrets of the great guides, the "cultural ambassadors," who can turn an ordinary vacation trip into a meaningful, life-enriching journey. "Coming Up on Your Left: A Tour Guide's Guidebook" is full of funny, poignant, and inspirational stories from a tourism-industry insider who has traveled with dozens of guides all over the globe.

Download or read book Travel with the Dream Makers written by Lynette Hinings-Marshall and published by Lulu Publishing Services. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What job involves travelling to an exotic location, organising a dentist for a client's broken tooth, or gently breaking the news of a family death? All in a day's work for a tour guide. Travel with the Dream Makers presents an intriguing behind-the-scenes account of the little known world of tour guiding. Tour guides deliver the promise; they bring to life the travel dreams of their clients. In Travel with the Dream Makers, author Lynette Hinings-Marshall shines a light on the role of tour guides. A series of vignettes, written by some of the industry's most experienced tour guides, recount delightful stories of everything from flying zebras to the drama of a flight grounded by an insurgent guerilla organization. Whether an armchair traveller, adventurer or potential tour guide this enjoyable book holds something for everyone, although perhaps it should come with a warning: Beware, this book may result in an irresistible urge to plan a trip!

Download or read book Becoming a Tour Guide written by Verité Reily Collins and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a Tour Guide provides valuable guidance in establishing a career path in the industry. Packed with practical tips, useful advice and real-life case studies drawn from all the different areas of the industry, it tells you which jobs are most suited to your skills, how to develop those skills further, where to look for jobs and training and how to further your career once you've begun work. It finishes with a list of contact details of useful organizations and associations, as well as suggestions for further reading.

Download or read book The Professional Guide written by Kathleen Lingle Pond and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel and tourism is emerging as one of the world's largest and most dynamic industries. This handbook aims to provide guides with a foundation to the tourism and travel industry. It begins with a definition of the various kinds of guides and an overview of guiding throughout history and the world.

Download or read book How to Be an Award Winning Tour Guide written by Jeremy Perks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you want to become a tour guide or are already working in the industry, How to Be an Award-Winning Tour Guide can help transform your guiding skills from basic to brilliant and open new doors to one of the world’s most exciting professions. Written by award-winning tour operators and tour guide trainers, this book is loaded with insight, personal experiences, industry knowledge, anecdotes, hints, humour, hands-on exercises and sound advice. With their combined 40 years’ experience in tourism and communications, the authors know how important a good tour guide is to delivering a quality visitor experience. Now they’re sharing their knowledge with you. How to Be an Award-Winning Tour Guide is essential reading for tour guides, tour operators, coach drivers, hoteliers, wholesalers, retailers, students, educators, employers, travel writers, tourism officials, visitor centre employees, venue managers or anyone involved in the tourism industry.

Download or read book Travel the World Free As an International Tour Director written by Gerald E. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you like to travel, & to be paid for your efforts." Here is a way to gratify your needs. The travel industry is a multi-million dollar industry. Just last year alone, over 60 million people in North America went on escorted tours. How does one launch into this lucrative industry? Obviously, the best way is through a program which will provide the reader with the necessary tools from an accredited member of the travel industry. Introduce them to Gerry Mitchell (author, president of G. E. Mitchell & Associates, Inc. (estb. 1967) Publishing Co. on "How to Be an International Tour Director." This manual provides them with everything they need to know about this career, & will motivate & assist them for those who aspire to TRAVEL FREE WHILE EARNING A RESPECTABLE INCOME. Everything is in the manual, spelled-out, to let the reader gain the confidence of a diplomat, the performance skills of an entertainer, & the organizational abilities of a management expert...to let the reader set their sights towards the world. The Gerry Mitchell manuals are an ideal gateway to launch a new career, avocation, or hobby which will offer the reader the privilege to travel free, earn money, & mingle with people of all walks of life. $149.95 plus $4.50 shipping & handling. The kit includes: * 250-page manual * 189-page site-inspection journal * Resource start up kit with video. HOW TO ORDER: G. E. Mitchell Publishing Group, P.O. Box 159, Sullivans Island, SC 29404; 803-723-7400; FAX 803-853-2822; toll free 800-894-8687 or 800-209-0019.

Download or read book Travel and Travail written by Mary C. Fuller and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fiber. Female travelers were also frequently represented on the English stage and in other creative works, both as a reproach to the ban on female travel and as a reflection of historical women's travel, whether intentional or not. Travel and Travail conclusively refutes the notion of female travel in the early modern era as "an absent presence." The first part of the volume offers analyses of female travelers (often recently widowed or accompanied by their husbands), the practicalities of female travel, and how women were thought to experience foreign places. The second part turns to literature, including discussions of roving women in Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, and Thomas Heywood. Whether historical actors or fictional characters, women figured in the wider world of the global Renaissance, not simply in the hearth and home.

Download or read book How to Travel Free as an International Tour Director written by G. E. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Professional Tour Management written by Robert T. Reilly and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Travel and Tourism Public Relations written by Dennis E. Deuschl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive overview of PR practice in the four major sectors of the travel and tourism industry, this text outlines standard PR communication tools and addresses the particular communication challenges faced by PR professionals working in the industry.

Download or read book Great Tours written by Barbara Abramoff Levy and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating tours that are interesting and educational for visitors (and guides!) is a challenge every historic site faces. Great Tours! helps you focus clearly on the material culture and significance of your site and then shows you how to use that focus to train and energize your guides. You will be able to move your tours to a fresh new level that is engaging and educational for visitors of all ages and abilities. Readings and workshop activities frame the process throughout and allow you to develop what is most appropriate for your site, while working to strike a realistic balance between ideals and every day reality. Great Tours! offers a unique combination of theoretical guidance and practical activities, supplemented by reproducible forms and a bibliography and index, that make it an invaluable resource for anyone involved with planning tours and training guides. Published in cooperation with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Visit their web page.

Download or read book Tales of a Tour Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: