Tour guide

Check-out, Abholung.

Tour guide is a person who leads a group through tourist sites, sharing information about history and culture.

Tour guide, Tourguide.

Map shows streets, landmarks, or regions helping you navigate unfamiliar places.

Map, Karte.

Spent 17 years at Intrepid Travel.

Worked as a tour guide, so I started at the very bottom and spent 10 years building the global day tour business at Intrepid called Urban Adventures, and now work on helping all sorts of travel businesses connect with content creators at CollapseMap.

You know, just starting off, did you just insult like half of our listening audience tour guides who are at the very bottom?

Yeah.

Should we stop and start again? No, no.

Look, there's a

lot of tour guides who think they are.

I

Um, so I was, uh, working as a travel agent in Australia selling Contiki tours, Busabout tours, Topdeck tours, and all sorts of, you know, 18 to 35 products as a travel agent.

Um, and eventually I was like, "Well, what if I actually work for one of these companies that ran the tours?" So I applied, along with thousands of others, to be a tour guide in Europe for a season, which is an incredibly intensive process and thousands of applications, but got through and got myself a job with Topdeck Travel, uh, for the summer of 2011.

And then in the winter, decided to, uh ... decided I'd been on the road long.

It was, you know, you're on an 18 to 35 trip, so there was lots of work hard, play hard dynamic happening.

I, I can understand why after doing a trip like that you're like, "Yes, I wanna be one of these travel a- travel guides-

Um, yes

... tour guides that are on the bus telling you about the destination you're coming to next, upselling you with their little, you know, handheld pad-

[laughs]