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Who is the tour guide??

First who is the tour guide and what’s job he done ?

Tour guides work in the travel industry, giving guided tours to groups of
visitors. They are experts on the history of the location and offer their
tour groups interesting or enlightening information about points of
interest at nature attractions, historic sites, museums, scenic locations,
and other travel destinations. Guides may give walking tours, bus
tours, or even lead river tours on a boat. Often hired by visitors'
bureaus or travel companies, tour guides are typically residents of the
region in which they give tours.

What about the tour guide duty ?

A tour guide's duties depend on their location and employer. If they are
self-employed, they will usually give tours of publicly accessible travel
destinations like national parks or nature attractions. Those who are
employed by a visitor's bureau or corporation offer tours of cities,
industrial locations, or other points of interest. The three main areas of
specialization within the guiding industry are historical tour guiding,
corporate tour guiding, and nature or eco-tour guiding.
The guide leads and guides tourist or tourist group during travel and
tourist trip of any kind. The tourist guide can generally be defined as a
person who accompanies tourists, visitors and foreign delegations to
cities, regions, features, installations and tourist, historical and
archeological sites, provides them with the necessary information,
respond to their inquiries with accurate, correct and objective
information, avoid additions, jurisprudence, comments and personal
opinions, stay with them and accompany them

What is the qualities that the tour guid must have ?

The tourist guide receives special training to deal with tourists in the
broadest way possible and in the most appropriate manner, because
this guide is a tourist front for the tourist-receiving country, knowing
that there is a set of criteria that must be met in the tourist guide,
namely:

- The tourist guide has a university qualification who is closely


associated with the specialisation of tourism sciences.

- The tour guide will pass a cataloguing course in international


tourism extension.

- The tour guide pass the general acceptance examination in two


foreign languages as a minimum and in the general culture as well as
in history and geography, as well as the environmental and heritage
effects of the tourist areas of the State.

That tourist guide must be fully familiarised with the tourism culture
and be able to interact and interact creatively with the internal
community.

- The tour guide is fully part-time in this wonderful profession.

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- The tourist guide can speak the language in writing and
pronunciation, and be at least skillful in one foreign language in
addition to proficiency in the Arabic language.

- The tourist guide should be familiar with the full tourism legislation,
including laws, regulations, regulations and decisions that define and
regulate the work of the various institutions and agencies, as well as
tourist facilities and facilities in the country

- The tour guide pass the general acceptance examination in two


foreign languages as a minimum and in the general culture as well as
in history and geography, as well as the environmental and heritage
effects of the tourist areas of the State.

That tourist guide must be fully familiarised with the tourism culture
and be able to interact and interact creatively with the internal
community

. The negative of the tour guide

The tourist situation was affected by the political situation, which led
to the low numbers of tourists and the lack of material support during
these periods. Most of those I know it work with the gyewing system
or programs.

Lack of recognition by some members of society

Remote from family at work time

Lack of State training and development

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