Tourist Guide: Between Passion and Work

The tourist guide profession is seen as an easy job because it is enough to tell 4 things read in a few books while carrying around a group of tourists who after 2 hours we will no longer see. Well if you are this type of tourist guide, don't miss MeTour !!

We are looking for PASSIONATE TOURIST GUIDES, who do this job for passion and not for profession, who want to share their land because they love it and want others to know it and love it as well. Our ideal guide is a lover who knows how to thrill !!

Today the tourist is a demanding and prepared person, from whom professionalism, dedication and preparation are expected. The advent of digital has broadened the horizons of knowledge, allowing anyone to come into contact with information and content capable of generating value. Being a Guide cannot absolutely mean, therefore, improvisation or pressure. Driving is a fascinating and complex profession that requires commitment, study, sacrifice and a good dose of charisma. Being a guide means first of all loving your land and cultural and environmental heritage and being willing to fight to make it known, but above all to protect it. Often narrators of fairy tales and popular stories, in love with nature, their own history, their own legends and traditions, they feed on the sparkle of the eyes of those tourists who, after following it on an impervious path, suddenly discover a breathtaking panorama that makes his eyes widen.

A good guide MUST create empathy, even starting your visit in front of a coffee to get to know the group of tourists, but above all to make yourself known. He must know the places, with peculiarities, stories, characteristics, smells, atmospheres, myths and legends and with a love, above all, visceral for his own land. Know your land from a geographical, morphological, historical, cultural, ethnological point of view ... but also food and wine and games. Often it was born as a hobby, but then it often becomes a job and, for someone, even a choice of life, always lived with passion, telling their own territory. Passion is the lever that must guide the professionalism of a guide every day.

A good guide has: Leadership, problem solving skills, ease of socialization, communication, but above all of knowing how to play the multiple role of Author, Director and Practagonal Actor of the "show" that you intend to stage. The communication and the ability to create empathy with our "public" is fundamental, because being a deep connoisseur of the cultural heritage of a territory, but bad communicators, would mean boring and not transmitting. Certainly training and study can be helpful, practicing with an audience of relatives and friends is fundamental, but also tenacity and perseverance must accompany us on a path of continuous and constant improvement. However, it is also necessary to model one's own character to make it as suitable and flexible as possible to the needs of tourists, because Tourists will never be the same, as their questions or their answers to your stimuli will never be the same. Certainly, a great dose of patience must arm the Ideal Tourist Judah. Being a guide means putting yourself into play, with your limits, your strengths, your physicality, your personality. And refer to the judgment of others. Always. While maintaining its security and professionalism.