KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

NAME : NALUZIGE ENID

REG NO: : 2018-04-00015

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 Advantage of wildlife in tourism

It is the important part of the natural ecosystem.

It is very essential to maintain the ecological balance on the earth's surface.
Dead and decaying plants also produce humus , which helps to maintain the fertility of the soil.
Hunting of wildlife disturbs the ecological balance on the earth's surface. So, wildlife is essential
Examples of wild life animals
 Zebras
 Lion
 Elephants
 Leopard

Wild Bird Species

Wild birds look and behave differently and being familiar with species' characteristics can help
you identify them properly and understand their behavior.

 Pictures of Red Birds

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Fun Facts About Kingfishers

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25 Best Birds to Watch for in Texas

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Amazing Birds With Orange Plumage

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A Picture Gallery of Ducks

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25 Best Birds to Watch for in Hawaii
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What's the Difference Between Buzzards and Vultures?

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Everything to Know About Wild Turkeys

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Gallery of Common Woodpecker Species

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Most Common Backyard Birds

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Wild Bird Egg Identification

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House Finch or Purple Finch?

Types of Hummingbirds in North America

Sparrow Identification Tips

Identifying the 12 Types of Ducks

Mourning Dove

Photo Gallery of Wild Bird Nests and Eggs

Baby Bird Identification Tips

Shorebirds 101: Learn the Beach Birds

Fun Facts and Trivia About Wild Turkeys

Birds Found in Phoenix and the Surrounding Parts of Arizona

5. What is the importance of tour guiding

Tour Guide helps Organize Your Itinerary Effectively

If you only travel for several days, making plan or schedule would be a better option to help you
experience stunning local spots, best restaurants, breathtaking scenery in a short period of time.
But, this opportunity of exploring foreign regions never should turn out being like working. Save
up your energy and time by leaving the planning job to professional ones such as tour guides.

With their professions and traveling experiences, they are able to organize itinerary, schedule
activities in an effective way. Since they know the best of the traffic conditions, the operating
hours of popular tourist sites, when would be the best time to skip the lines and so on, they are
going to guide you without too much uncertainty.

Tour Guide Saves Your Time and Helps You Cope with any Problems during Travel

Your intention may be different than other travelers when arriving in a new country, but you
would have at least ONE thing in common: to spend most of your valuable time in discovering
and enjoying the best part of the country. However, you cannot always expect everything will be
hunky-dory during traveling, so you have to be a flexible problem solver at all time when
traveling independently.  However, coping with problems during travel might sacrifice your
precious travel time. Especially, if you are unfamiliar with the foreign areas or do not have local
acquaintances there, you are at higher risk of running into negative situations such as
accommodation problems, getting lost, getting pick-pocketed and so on.

Instead of reaching out the local or police on streets, one role of tour guides is the best problem
solvers that know the surroundings and cultural customs well than you do. Clearly, an advantage
of tour guides is to make traveling experience happier since they help to turn negative situations
into positive ones.
Tour Guide Ensure Your Safety, Make your Travel Hassle-Free

This is a big advantage of having a tour guide, especially if you are traveling with kids or 
family. Imagine that you are going to take a nature excursion like jungle of Costa Rica, there is
likely for you to hire a local tour guide who understand the circumstance well enough than you
as visiting the place for the very first time.

Exploring significant but dangerous attractions may come to you for a while, but fear of
uncertainty is usually a factor hindering people to take the first step out of comfort zone.

The role of tour guides includes watching you back, making sure guests would not get hurt or
swallow something toxic. Also, tour guides can diminish language barrier, so that tourists are
less likely to be swindled by local businessmen. These reasons are proving the importance of a
tour guide on your tour.

Experience a Country in Different Aspects

Other than queuing for popular tourist attractions and taking photos, you can immerse yourself in
culture and history of a foreign place through introductions from the tour guide. They possess a
wide range of knowledge of local areas, which is a good advantage for tourists since the
knowledge leads you to look at those attractions in more profound way. Thanks to what you
learn from trip, your mental state will be taken to a whole new level. Therefore, one of the
importance of having a tour guide is that they are able to broaden your horizons from traveling
experiences. 

Hiring a Tour Guide may be Cheaper Than You Think,

Another advantage of hiring a tour guide would be saving extra money for tourists. Taking a
guided tour can be ended up cheaper than traveling independently, such as booking hotel rooms
with lower prices, obtaining half price tickets. If you are concerned about travel budget, guided
tour usually help you save certain money and you still can obtain incredible experiences on tour.
More than Just Traveling: Supporting Local Economy can Add Value and Memorable
Sweetness to Your Trip

Hiring a local tour guide is a positive means to show your support of local businesses. The
money you pay them would be potentially build and better the local tourism. On the other hand,
local tour guides provide you good quality of guiding service and bring you the experiences of
authentic culture.

Based on the top reasons presenting the importance of tour guides for both tourists and tourism,
your impression to the role of tour guides may alter significantly. A good tour guide who take
tourists’ requirements as first priority would definitely spice up your tour with less pressures.

A Travel Guide, often known as a tour guide, tourist guide or local guide plays an important role
here to introduce you to all the aspects that are required so that you can enjoy the place and not
regret missing out on anything. They are best trip planners and help to create an experience for
you as demanded, by providing the idea and importance of the destination that is to be travelled.
In this fast-paced life, everyone is looking out for some change and explore the world. Some
have adopted it as a form of their life and leading a nomadic lifestyle. For others it is a matter of
striking that balance, hence to enjoy some peaceful travels, things should be planned well. A
Tour Guide is important to plan your trips properly without any surprises about the new place.
They are required because they help organize, manage and plan the whole trip for you so that
you can just concentrate on enjoying the destination and leave everything else on them.

 You do not have to do any planning for the trip. They take care of all the bookings and
reservations to relieve you from all the stress.
 They have a good network; hence the hotels and tickets may cost you less in comparison.
 Tour Guides are aware of the best in every destination; hence you are up to visiting the
best places.
 You can’t visit everything that a place has to offer on your own. That requires a lot of
time, efforts and courage to explore. But Tour guides surely can prove to be helpful here.
Since they are familiar to that place a nd will help you have a wonderful trip at a low
cost.
  They ensure quality services and have a keen eye for making your trip satisfactory.

Many travellers think that hiring a tour guide may swell up their budget, but they are wrong.
There are a lot of repercussions of visiting a new place and preparing yourself well for the same
is surely a good idea. Or you might get yourself prone to getting fooled by the locals, due to
various reasons like language barriers etc. These guides can speak various languages like
English, German, French, Japanese and many more.

A Tour Guide helps you with everything from hiring a car, staying at a hotel, visiting the places
around and experiencing the area, and all this as per your requirements and with a perfect
estimate. You can trust them with this and if you really enjoyed the trip do not forget tipping the
tour guide, though different countries have different rules about the same, so confirm that once.
Here is wishing you a safe and blissful trip!

Discuss the qualities of a good tour guide

Tour guides handle a few or several tourists, at any given time. A quality tour guide should show
accurate and significant knowledge, all while providing a simple and engaging experience for
guests. Guides help to add a personal touch and influence to your experience. Here are qualities a
great tour guide should possess:

Knowledge of the Tour Area

Your tour guide should be prepared to take you on a journey to some of the most unique places
in the world. Tourists are educated during various parts of the trip by guides who know the area
inside and out. Tour guides should be able to explain facts, history, landmarks, figures, local
customs and more. They should also be able to answer additional tour related questions that may
come up during the trip. Knowledgeable guides can help make your trip insightful and
memorable.
Ability to Communicate Effectively

Communication is one of the strongest qualities a tour guide needs to have. They must be able to
articulate and project their voices and speak clearly, to help prevent any misunderstandings from
their various tourists and groups. A good tour guide also needs to know how to properly
pronounce words. Someone who knows how to command the attention of multiple people at
once, is a good candidate for a tour guide position. Tour guides must be approachable and have
excellent interpersonal skills because they will be involved with multiple people on a daily basis.

Strong Empathy and Understanding

Tour guides assist people from all over the world. For this reason, it is vital to be able to
communicate effectively. Tourists may come from various walks of life, age groups, cultures,
nationalities, and backgrounds, or speak different languages. The ability to handle social norms
and expectations is key to being an effective tour guide. The best guides are empathetic to
cultural differences and prioritize making each delivery unique to their guests. Your tour guide
should also have a sensitivity and understanding for accommodating those guests with special
needs.

Charismatic Personality

Your tour guide should be entertaining, and able to engage charismatically with numerous
tourists. It is a plus to have natural charisma. Each day and every tour will be unique, so tour
guides must consistently find opportunities to be charming, interesting, delightful, funny and
friendly. This helps groups enjoy one another, which can make the tour more appealing.

Keen Ability to Improvise and Adapt

Situations may change at the spur of the moment. Tour guides should be familiar with
improvising and adapt to these changing situations. They should be able to tell when their
audience needs for them to adapt to prevent loss of interest from the group. Your tour guide
should also be able to adapt and keep up to date with changing times and constant advancements
in technology and determine how they affect or enhance their tours.
Focuses on Building Rapport

People are excited to be embarking on once in a lifetime journeys. Tour guides can help by
exhibiting patient, yet encouraging and cheerful demeanors throughout tour excursions. Guides
should build rapport by encouraging effective conversations, asking questions, providing
information, and demonstrating passion.

Engaging Storyteller and Actor

Tour guides should have a compelling zeal and passion for what they do. They do not have to be
locals to be a guide in an area. They just need to have enough passion to learn the history of an
area, naturally, tell the story and explain their knowledge with enthusiasm to eager guests.
Tourists love learning about various fun facts and little known secrets about the area they will be
touring. Guides should consistently have the ability to convey passion, act positively and tell
various interactive stories.

Flexibility

At times, tour guides will need to go with the flow. They may need to use various approaches
based on the audience they will be entertaining. A flexible approach to a situation can make a
good tour even better. Great tour guides are flexible when it comes to unexpected issues and
schedule changes.

Timeliness and Punctuality

Being punctual is one of the most essential characteristics your tour guide should possess
because they need to have guests at designated areas at specific times. They usually follow a
schedule from an itinerary with various timeframes. It is imperative that your tour guide make
specific allotments for these timeframes, and help guests get to where they need to be on time.
The greatest tour guides are punctual and organized.

Eagerness to Learn and Willingness to Teach Others

Your tour guide should be able to keep the tour group well informed. Guests should learn new
things and gather new insights while they are traveling. A good guide continuously aims to
facilitate ways to learn how to make each tour distinct and unique from previous tours. They care
about identifying needed improvements, and studies or pays attention to what guests gain from
their tours. Tour guides learn by encouraging guests to provide necessary feedback so they can
use the information to enhance future tours. A good tour guide is an expert in their destinations
and area attractions.

Professionalism

Guides should maintain rapport by displaying a professional attitude at all times. Even when not
working, quality guides exhibit behaviors that are representative of who they are.
Professionalism helps audiences see the tour guide as a credible and reliable source. Being
professional includes essential attributes such as being honest, well groomed, punctual, attentive
and courteous.

Having a good tour guide can be beneficial. Your tour guide should have the ability to guide with
authority, enthusiasm and help you to have some of the most authentic, and rewarding
experiences of a lifetime. Regardless of your destination, great tour guides utilize their qualities
to ensure their guests have memorable tours. For more information on tours in and from Las
Vegas, 

Challenges of Being a Tour Guide

People always have a good fantasy about tour guiding, basing on an image that this job is able to
get you to everywhere around the world. Tour guiding is a rewarding job for sure since there are
many good chances of exploring different countries and meeting up new foreign friends. In the
meantime, tour guiding confronts plenty of challenges and pressures when organizing itineraries,
taking care of every guest, and coping with any traveling problems.

If you have made up your mind to become a tour guide, you may need to take a deeper look at
the role of tour guides and realize the tears, sweat behind its fantasy as well. We have pointed out
the truth about being a tour guide, and made a list of challenges of tour guides you will face once
becoming a tour guide in the near future.

Challenges of tour guides

No Stable Income & Labor Insurance

This is a brutal problem faced by tour guides. There is no guarantee that tour guides are able to
lead a stable number of tour groups in a month. It is possible to have no income during off-
season. However, the situation will turn better only if you know how to build up your brand and
reputation.

Also you cannot expect to receive labor insurance unless you are officially a company or agent’s
employee. If you are concerned about any employment security, the only resolution would be
finding other legal approaches, which may be complicated and lengthy to process.

Nearly Work 24 Hours 

If you think tour guide is basically traveling with a group of travelers, you completely
misconstrue the role of tour guides. Their work mission, instead, is mainly to ensure everything
runs smoothly and to satisfy every tourist on tours. Since problems may happen to guests any
time, tour guides need to pay one hundred percent attention on tour groups rather than having
their own relaxed trips.

As a result, tour guides should be “on” all the time because they have responsibilities to cope
with the language barrier, problems with hotel rooms, and other unexpected situations that does
not comply with itinerary. Also they are required to understand all detailed traveling information
right before gathering at airport, so they usually start working ahead of leading trips.

Feel Lonely

Although tour guides are not exactly like Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air, their job still requires
them to travel with a group of tourists abroad, flying away from their families and friends. One
of the problems faced by tour guide is to strike a balance between working and their own private
lives—missing out on old friend’s wedding, critical growing moments of children would happen
to them due to working in another foreign country.

Of course tour guides are surrounded by many people while working, but those people still
cannot feel as intimate as family members and old friends in just a short period of a trip.

Repeat Traveling the Same Place

It may sound appealing to you, but once you travel in the same place with the same itinerary for
over forty times, the traveling would deplete your excitement toward the destination little by
little.

Eventually, traveling in the destination would turn out just a business trip. This would be a
problem faced by tour guide. As a result, it is pretty essential for tour guides reviving their
interests in tourist attractions that have repeatedly been to for multiple times, such as creating
terrific traveling moments with interesting people on tours.

Being Knowledgeable is a Must

This is the basic role of tour guides but also one of the problems they face. If you want to
become a tour guide, you are supposed to understand culture taboo, geography, history of a
country. You will deal with language communications, currency exchanges once situations
occur, so you have to prepare well all the time. All the actions and decisions you make for tours
heavily influence your later business and reputation in this industry. Clearly, tour guides are not
merely about physically traveling but also knowing every stuff during a trip.

Test Your Patience

Traveling with people from all over the world is enchanting only if your guests respect you and
do not take everything for granted. Tourists with poor attitude or difficult requirements tests your
patience. Perhaps there is a need to adjust the time schedule due to weather conditions or traffic
problem, sometimes tourists on the tour would complain about your expedient resolution and
even try to argue with you. Even if guests are not reasonable, do not really conflict with them.
Patiently communicating with them at that moment is a win-win strategy, and that is part of the
role of tour guides.

Do the truth and challenges of tour guiding start to change your mind? Despite the challenges of
tour guides and problems they face, tour guiding will enrich and reward your life in the
meantime for sure.

If you are considering about being a tour guide, MyProGuide is a tourist company which is able
to answer your further questions. Also, if you have any career problems with the role of tour
guides, we like to resolve them as best as we can.
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