Travel, Tourism and Hospitality - Tourist Guide
Travel, Tourism and Hospitality - Tourist Guide
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Tourist guides show visitors around places of interest like cities, historic buildings and art galleries.
- Guide people around a castle, gallery, historic house or garden
- Escort groups of tourists around a site
- Give information about the history, purpose and architecture of a site
- Accompany groups on day tours to a number of places of interest
- Answer questions and suggest other places to visit
- Organise or arrange for additional trips and visits
As a Tourist Guide, you could work at monuments and castles, in a museum, at an art gallery or in parks and gardens.
Your working environment may be physically active, outdoors some of the time and you'll travel often.
Tourist Guides tend to work seasonally between 28 to 30 hours a week. You could also work freelance and self-employed.
Starting: £18,000
Experienced: £30,000
You could do a travel and tourism qualification like:
Level 2 Certificate in Travel and Tourism
Level 3 Diploma in Travel and Tourism
This will give you an insight into the tourist industry and help you develop some of the skills to work as a tourist guide.
Having a language like French, German, Italian or Spanish, or a history qualification can also be useful for this type of role.
Organisations like the National Trust and English Heritage offer opportunities to gain experience as a tour guide through volunteering.
If you have customer service, teaching or language skills or you have experience of working with people, you may be able to apply directly.