Driver Guide in Tourism
We need to understand the roles of a Driver Guide in Tourism business and how they deliver services to visitors. A Driver Guide in Tourism is a person that is directly involved in handling visitors/tourists through driving and visiting attractions around the world.
Driver guides do a key role in tour operations and careful selection must be observed in who is to handle a particular set of guests/visitors. Knowing the strength of a particular drive guide is very important to take note of. Language spoken by the driver guide is very important to enable you to make allocation of your safaris in line with what guest’s language is, for instance, a Freaking speaking drive guide is the best fit for a set of guests that speaks and understands French. An English-speaking guide is best fit for guests fluent and clearly understand English as a language.
Think of what information do driver guide share with guest while on safari. It is very important to arrange a set of topics that guides can talk about with guests while on a tour, these could be in political circles as most of the visitors could have a big interest in political stories. Think of topics around the economy of the country visited, culture, education, or the local lifestyle of the indigenous communities which we can refer to as social life.
A driver guide in Tour Business remains so vital not only to your tour company but to the entire tourism industry so they deserve regular training in First Aid and emergency attention when called for by a visitor/guest, Training on basic vehicle mechanics for example changing a tire and basic checks that are required and done to a vehicle prior starting it for a safari on a given day.
Measuring your driver guide skill development in relation to their passion for guests means a lot in ensuring the success of your safari company. Keeping them knowledgeable on the history of the country, wildlife of the area, culture and people, and the main tourist activities for instance in Uganda, guides must know more about gorilla trekking tours and it’s procedures. This has the biggest demand for many visitors so worth having good product knowledge about makes a very good and professional guide.
Any drive guide in the tourism business must stand out on certain qualifications including being a good leader, holding a good sense of humor, must be very outgoing, flexible, dependable and so proactive in executing guest plans.
At E&J tourism consultants Ltd, we offer guides training on a number of things from self-presentation, product knowledge, and instilling a sense of discipline in handling forms of visitors from their nationalities and backgrounds.
