WHO IS A PROFESSIONAL GUIDE?
Dear all!
Last month we’ve started questioning ITAP LinkedIn followers about qualities of a professional guide. Thank you all for comments and shares! Today we will try to sum up all the thoughts. As we might have expected, the most important qualities of a guide are charisma and deep knowledge. It’s a rare gift to combine that both qualities, but that’s what makes a guide. Of course, that’s not all. A guide shall know the language, communicate perfectly with the audience, and love his or her job.
There is one more important quality: constant desire to improve and grow. Trainings and courses will definitely make you a pro in a business.
To sum-up we would like to use a letter sent by one of our followers:
"Firstly, guide is a person who helps any foreign person or tourist to get adequate knowledge about a certain place, it's culture, geography, history, importance and many more.
A guide, in its general sense refers to the person having adequate knowledge about a certain place. But the full definition of a guide refers that a guide should also have the ability to explain what he/she knows, must have decent information, polite behavior, leadership skills and technical knowledge too.
A professional guide is the advanced form of guide which has the leadership ability to lead a team of Trekkers or guides. A professional guide has the ability to take instant but correct decision in any condition..."
Samten Hodser
Thank you all for following ITAP, we appreciate your work and look forward to feedback.
Kind Regards,
ITAP-World Team
Jan 2016