Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Qualities Of The Best Tour Guide Montreal

By Etta Bowen


Everyone likes touring, learning, appreciating new cultures, tourist attractions and enjoying new delicacies. There are millions upon millions of tourist attractions around the world, which have employed guides world over. However nice these attractions are the difference between a successful tour and a bad tour can only be defined by the kind of tour guide you will hire, or who will be assigned to you. If you are qualified with added up training in this field, you realize that you are soon going to need more than that, in order to make the best tour guide Montreal city.

The first one is being committed to the service of tour guide. You should find in your heart to make your tourist experience as good as it should, while you are receiving and taking them to places. You should always be attentive to your clients needs, proactive and responsive. When you posses these qualities, the tourist will always like your services for they feel you are fully devoting yourself to serve them.

Friendliness and having a welcoming personality is really not easy to achieve. However, in this business, you cannot do without. Guests are very sensitive and they need to be treated with utmost friendliness and welcoming nature. If you do this well then an individual is most likely to get the same visitors come to your business more. Better still, you are guaranteed of great referrals that will see your business flocking with tourist all year round.

Always try to be friendly to your guest. You should have an authority of some kind when dealing with them, and be able to keep them together at all times. Keep your members focused on your mission and in your dealing with situations, without necessarily demoralizing or intimidating any member of your group. This way they also feel loved and easy to express themselves, thus end up enjoying your company.

Next on the line is understandability. Ones you are understanding, then you will realize that you need to be able to speak and understand a couple of languages that your tourists understand, for better communication. On top, understanding your local language goes a long way in winning your guests confidence. This also means that you will be able to protect them against hassles by the taxi drivers, bureaucratic systems and other extortions.

When you are out there taking your guest for a walk, it is also important that you become engaging. Always share your knowledge about a place, culture, scenery, hobby etc. In an illuminating, captivating and professional way, and seek to understand whether they have taken the point in.

Be engaging in your talks. Make sure that your talks are illuminating, and entertaining and that all your guests can clearly hear you and believe the factual information you are giving. Most of the time use jokes and understandable examples to put your points through.

Be observant as to recognize people with special needs and to have a broad knowledge of topics, since you may be in the company of different types of people. Finally be flexible and take your time to enjoy different scenarios such as good breeze, sceneries and phenomenon such as sunsets.




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