Author: Joe

Tour guiding takes a lot of work. Guides need to do deep research, communicate ideas clearly, and organise complex experiences. Along with all of this, tour guides also need exceptional crowd control skills. You could be managing a small group through a city or a large group through an industrial site; either way, you need…

Running a guided tour requires a perfect confluence of organisation and communication skills. You need to be able to get complicated ideas and information across to large groups of people, while managing a crowd through potentially busy areas. With all this in mind it’s possible for proper health and safety to fall to the wayside…

Tour guiding can take a wide variety of different forms depending on the nature of the site. In some cases, it can be enough for a small group to follow one person through a setting, all hanging off the same words throughout the experience. Sometimes, there might be different team members for different parts of…

The experience of a guided tour can vary significantly from place to place. Smaller, independent tours might be led by one guide, offering an intimate, personalised experience to visitors. Some historical sites or museums might be best explored through self-guided tours, where visitors use audio equipment to learn about the site at their own pace.…

A conference is a great opportunity for industry professionals to connect, as well as learn about new developments in the sector. Conferences are known for large-scale speeches and addresses, during which individual speakers or panels have to communicate information to significant audiences. This might sound simple enough to do with a PA system, but in…

Tour guiding is all about communication. Keeping a group together and moving them through an unfamiliar space, as well as offering insights at each point of interest, requires exceptional dialogue skills. However, with all the different variables at play, it can often take a little more than just technique, especially if you have guests who…

Tour guiding isn’t a career for the faint of heart. Even small-scale excursions and experiences require a high level of logistical expertise, people skills and a capacity to think on your feet, among other things. Now consider just how complicated it would be to do everything you already do in a different country. International tours…

People love to eat. All over the world, food is a massive part of family life and culture. Groups coming together to experience flavours old and new, break bread and learn about history is a universal beauty. The relevance of eating has perhaps never been more profound than right now. There are more food- and…

Office work isn’t for everyone. For many people, a job should be dynamic, hands-on and people-facing. Some people need a job that nurtures their more creative, even performative, instincts. Tour guiding could be the perfect career for people with these compulsions. Career fulfilment is important to our happiness, but we’re also living through a cost-of-living…