Who is the guide-guide in today's society?

• Who's Tourist guide in today's society?

In the Soviet and post periods of high popularity enjoyed profession-guide guide. After some period of time, this type of activity has lost such a high prevalence. However, in the last decade revived the "demand" on the people who know the history of the country, a certain region or city, able to beautifully convey to others their knowledge.

Who is the guide-guide?

In fact, they are two different activities: the guide and the guide.

Guide - is a person who conducts a tour of any particular route or historical / cultural / architectural monuments.

Builder - is a person who accompanies a person or group of people over a certain period of time (from one hour to several days) and fascinating talks about everything that goes on their way, which is interesting for tourists, which is the importance and significance for the city and countries.

Why profession guide's become popular again?

Holding various sports competitions (championships in football, gymnastics and so on. D.) And cultural activities (various dance and vocal competitions, including the Eurovision Song Contest) attracts a lot of international tourists in the countries of the former CIS. Europeans are very interested in history and culture of different countries. And who better to be able to show all the city and fun to talk about all the attractions and advantages of their country? That's right, this mission is the responsibility of the tour guides. Attracting foreign tourists - is to increase investment in the country's development. And for the guides themselves - this is an opportunity not a bad earnings, as they often charge for their work to visitors from other countries in foreign currency. The best guide, the higher the salary. Another advantage of this profession is that it may not be the main work, and podrabotok in his spare time. It turns out that with time, Good communication and acting data, knowledge of the history and culture of the country you can earn good.

Educate the profession in special courses. It can be like a class at a university or institute, or just some training courses. Upon completion of training all "applicants" are issued certificates. If you want to become a professional in his field, spend a little more time and find such courses, where you can get a certificate / diploma of international standard.

Among the modern tour guides many historians, translators, artists, professionals in the tourism sector.

What are the qualities of a representative of the profession?

To be a professional and have a high ranking among the competitors, not good enough to know everything about their country and city. After a particularly good guide to his ability to tell beautiful and exciting. Highly valued people who lead their narrative in the form of interesting stories, suggest examples of life, compared to the past and present. Also, visitors will listen with enthusiasm a guide who knows how to time a joke or beat historical date some funny jokes. Therefore, this profession requires excellent knowledge of foreign languages ​​(at least English) and acting ability. Friendliness, communication skills, ability to cope with lightning speed with problematic situations, quick wit and intelligence - qualities that are not less important for the guides.