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How to find the perfect private tour guide?

A few years ago everybody used his travel agency just around the corner to organize their next vacation. But people more and more are using the internet to book a hotel or a flight. It's really easy, fast and cheap to book flights and hotels over the internet. But to hire a private guide over Internet – why not? In the last year there came up a few websites that help connecting travellers with local guides. The idea is simple, the tour guide creates a profile with information about herself and the traveller can find, share and book the guide who is perfect for him.

These websites have advantages over the traditional travel agency:

-         You get to know the private guide before you book, you can speak with him and can discuss details and all this before you go.

-         You decide which guide you want to do a tour with, not the travel agency is assigning you to the tour guide they earn the most commission

-         Did I say commission, yes, when you book through a travel agency they earn commission. Normally they aren't directly in contact with the guide, more over there is a incoming agency in between who will also gain some money. Probably the tour guide can give you directly a much better price than the travel agency.

-         And it's a fair trade: The tour guide get's his money without giving the main part of his earnings to the travel agents. And you as a traveller won't pay such a high price as you normally do at the travel agency. A win win for both.

 

So to use a local guiding website for locating private tour guides has its advantages. But how do I know which guide is reliable and trustworthy? Well that's why I recommend you to use a website where you'll find detailed information about the tour guide like:

-         a copy of the tour guide licence if he is a professional tour guide

-         Reviews and ratings of previous clients. This ensures that the guide will be highly motivated to do a good service. If he won't do a good service he will receive a bad user rating and won't be booked again from other clients

-         There's also one website where the tour guides can demonstrate their competence by answering travel questions and by writing travel tips to share their insider knowledge.

About the Author

LocalGuiding.com is one of these websites, who connects you directly with local tour guides. You'll find private tours by local guides. Each tour contains detailed information on the person providing the tour. So each tour has a face, a real person with an own story behind it: You get to know your personal tour guide and can get directly in contact with her to arrange a customized tour.

How do I get a job as a Historical Park Tour Guide?

I am currently working towards my Social Studies Licensure,
is there anyway I can get a job as a historical park tour guide?

I applaud your dedication, but if your in the US it may not be possible given how much both states and the federal government actually allocate to the park service both for maintenance and the salaries of those who work there. Still, it is possible and you should probably check local state government or with the National Park Service to find out if there are opening at both state and federal parks as they will typically be the ones running historical parks. But not always as some are run by both for profit and not for profit groups. The latter two may be easier for you to get a job with as a tour guide.

If you're not from the US I'm even less sure what you should do, but I'd assume it's much the same as mentioned here. Other nations may put more funding into historical parks some they may be more interested in hiring people to act as tour guides.

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