Overview of Tour Guide Career

Series Summary

World travel has been your goal and your dream for years. You’ve fantasized about stowing away on a plane to Bonaire or mailing yourself to Timbuktu because you just plain don’t have the cash to jet set around the globe. So you decide to work two jobs for a year straight so you can spend a couple of weeks in India or the Philippines, then it’s right back to the grind again until you save up enough for the next exotic destination. But this cycle is wearing you out; maybe the time has come to settle down even though you still have the urge to see far-away lands… Expert Village is here to tell you that the dream doesn’t have to end. In fact your dream can become your career. We will now reveal how to get paid to travel all the time and share your passion with others

Learn about the career of a professional tour director in this free series of world travel videos from our tour guide authority. Cherie Anderson suggests that you start your career by guiding tours around your area, then move up to tours in other parts of the United States; before you know it, you’ll be traveling the world! She also tells you how to get hired as a cruise ship director. Plus find out such insider information as what to wear, how to focus your tour narration and how much you should expect to get paid.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Cherie Anderson and I am a International Tour Director and I am going to do a series today on how to get paid to travel. My background is in tourism. I also wrote the book the Tour Director Training Guide and I do an on-line class through 1400 colleges that is offered throughout the world. My background I started out as a Cruise Host working on Cruise lines and from there I went into tour directing and led tours all around the world as an International Tour Director. In the early 1990's, I went the colleges and I said look here are all these jobs and no one knows anything about it. I started training tour directors and guides for local, domestic, international tours and cruises and my students now can be found all over the world leading International tours, local programs, Domestic tours, cruises and local tours. So it is really exciting today to be able to talk to you about my business working as a professional Tour Director. I know there is very little information out there. A lot of people think we are travel agents. A lot of people think they can't make a living as a tour director and it is actually very exciting and lucrative if it is something that you will find interesting and in the videos today, I hope I can help you with the types of jobs that are available and give you a little insight to know that if this is the kind of the career you are interesting in pursuing. "