A tour guide can be a professional who provides information and accompaniment to travelers.
The term guide can have various uses and can refer to objects, human beings or symbolic elements. In its widespread use, a guide is known as both the manual or agreement that compiles the principles that must be taken into account to direct something, as well as the report with data referring to a certain topic and even the individual who directs and instructs another to make a certain thing.
Having said this, we can continue saying that a tour guide or tour guide is that individual who is dedicated to guiding a group of people in a tourism environment, showing them the most prominent places in the space they are visiting.
It is a subject who works as a companion for tourists and who is trained to inform travelers about the most relevant facts of a city, a museum , a historical building or any other attraction. You can also answer questions from tourists and provide general assistance to them. For example: "When we visited the Iguazú Falls, we had a very friendly guide" , "The museum guide told us that there were more than a thousand works on display" , "I am studying to become a tour guide" .
Classification of these professionals
It is worth mentioning that the concept of tourism refers to the activities carried out by subjects when they travel to an environment different from their usual one and remain there for a period of no more than twelve months.
There are various types of tour guides , depending on the type of responsibility and the type of actions they must perform, some of them are:
* Transfer guides : They receive passengers at the airports or stations where they arrive and provide them with information regarding the place they are visiting; In addition, they distribute the schedule of events that will take place throughout the entire stay and confirm the most important information, names, telephone numbers, address of the hotel and the most important places in the city, return date, logistics of the suitcases, etc.
* Tour guides : They take tourists along a tour and show them and tell them the history of the various attractions of the place . They are required to be people capable of expressing themselves and to have a deep knowledge of the most important aspects of the place, its history and its culture.
* Site guides : They specialize in a specific attraction (be it a monument, a museum, a church, etc.) and are dedicated to getting to know it in depth and showing it to tourists .
* Coordinating Guides : They accompany tourists throughout the entire circuit; They are usually present from the moment they leave until they return ; In general, they are hired by travel agencies in order to assist passengers in a personalized way, representing the company for which they work . It is not necessary for them to know the destination, since the respective guides who can effectively show the place will be hired for this purpose; they only have to be close to the passengers to assist them at any time.
Another classification of tourist guides can be made based on what they show, some of the names they receive in this case are tourist guides at the national, international level, cultural and archaeological places or recreational places , among many others.
A tourist guide is a digital or printed publication that offers information of interest about the attractions of a place.
Tourist guide as publication
In turn, a tourist guide can refer to a printed or digital publication that compiles information about said attractions; It is a type of book or magazine with information of interest to the traveler.
It can include hotel addresses and prices, restaurant recommendations, etc.: "I can't believe it: I forgot the travel guide at home," "According to the tourist guide, this is the best restaurant in town," "The tourist guide mentions only three hotels in this part of the city .