English for Tour Guides
Being a tour guide is a very important job. In many cases, the tour guide is a traveller's first impression of a foreign country. In other cases a tour guide may be responsible of teaching tourists about the culture and sites in a city or town and teaching tourists about safety. It is responsibility of a tour guide to make the short trip: interesting, informative, and safe.
So, good at communicating is very important for a tour guide.
And, English is necessary for tour guide to communicate with foreigner. Because, the work of tour guide who represented their country to introduce cultural, historical, geography, communication ability,.. and introduce the image of the country, people of their own country to tourists, international friends.
Now, English is the international language, and many tourists know English, so good English instructors to easily communicate with more customers.
Due to frequent contact with many visitors from different countries, so tour guide have to know English. Beside, Guests will be very sympathetic to the tour guides friendly, kind and have a deep understanding of their country.
Tour guide become a companion of visitors during the tour, from eating activities, resort to the fun activities, entertainment, shopping,... when visitors arrived in strange places first time.
Besides, tour guide can also capture the tastes, needs of customers, get honest feedback (compliment / criticism) from tourists and information related to tourism activities
By operations, tour guide create relationships from different sources clients to attract buyers tour and always needs to be purchased services from one organization guided tour business specific.
Language skills, speak many languages as possible. Without it, graduates will be very difficult to recruit and no chance of leading international delegations.
And good English is compulsory with international tour guide guiding in English.
Because, If you isn’t good at language, you hardly duties for foreign tourists, not to mention helping them understand the culture and love their country more.