Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Must Have 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.

Another quality that you ought to have is being knowledgeable. This precisely means that one should well endowed with knowledge on tourist products and services, best tourist attraction on offer, knowledge of local cultures, delicacies and more. This way your guests will believe that you know your stuff and can execute your duties well.

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.

Being engaging in your communication is one of the qualities that never should be overlooked. You should be able to demonstrate to your guest that you are eloquent, knowledgeable of the site and that you are giving factual information. Let most of your points be delivered in an entertaining and illuminating way that your guests will find captivating.

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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