This document provides advice for how to become a professional English tour guide in 3 paragraphs and bullet points. It emphasizes the importance of passion for the work, preparation through extensive research and reading, and sharing knowledge and experiences with tourists during tours to provide the best customer service. Key requirements include curiosity, a strong database of information, using organizational tools like Evernote and Google Drive, and keeping up to date by reading newspapers, magazines and books on a daily basis. The rewards are helping tourists learn about new places but challenges include long working hours and little sleep.
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How To Become A Professional English Tour Guide
1. 24 November 2015
Kevin & Jack
SOAR TRAVEL
How To Become A Professional
English Tour Guide
2. Run downYour work is going to fill a large part of your
life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to
do what you believe is great work. And the only
way to do great work is to love what you do. If
you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't
settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll
know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
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12. Kevin is one the very best guides we have ever had, and we've been
pretty much around the world. He is personable with an easygoing
enthusiasm, and he seemed to know everything there is to know
about Taipei. Any building, he seemed to know the architect; he not
only showed us temples, he explained the place of Taoism &
Buddhism in people's lives. We saw everything we hoped to see--
and it was a long list--yet he got us back to the ship early! We were
supremely happy with Kevin and you will be, too.
David Garrity
Taipei city Tour on 5 Nov 2015
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14. Few cons to be a tour guide
• High similarity of itinerary all the time
• You are working, not traveling
• Little sleep & Long working hour
• Lots of research, especially in English
15. Don't follow your passion, and the world is
not going to hell in a handbasket and the
class of 2015 is not required to save it.
1. Passions are hard to prioritize.
2. Passions change.
3. It's self-centered.
"Find that thing you're great at. Put that
into the world. Contribute to others. Help
the world be better."
Ben Horowitz
41. • Chinese newspaper: Apple Daily, UDN,
China Times, Liberty Times
• English Newspaper: Foucs Taiwan, Taipei
Times, China Post, Taiwan Newsonline,
Formosa English News
• Chinese magazine: 天下, 遠見, 商周, 講義,
etc.
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44. To read without reflecting is like eating
without digesting.
Edmund Burke
