Thursday, September 12, 2013

Spending The Best Of Your Tours

By Helene Norris


You may be planning to visit a certain place for adventure, fun or your other personal reasons. You are not familiar with the place so in order to get the most of your Haida Gwaii tours, it all boils down to right information and communication or the quality of your tour guide. Below are the important qualities of a guide that you must choose.

First is the ability to understand. Ideally he or she should speak a number of languages including your very own as well as the local ones. If they do then it will be better for them to speak clearly and with much confidence to be more understandable.

Punctuality is a must. Waiting for your guide is not a good indication. They must be the one waiting, not the visitors to them. They should realize that some visitors are very particular with the time and to waste it is a big mistake. You must be able to spend the time duration given that you will be staying with the place.

A friendly and approachable guide is all what you need. It is for you to have a good experience along the travel. They should possess the ability to make everyone follow them without being bossy. A practice of authority must not lead to being arrogant. They should know how to keep each one focused.

As leaders, they must have a wide knowledge regarding the place. It is essential that they will be able to explain each detail and answer each question that will be thrown at them. With the way they answer and explain, they must enhance the overall understanding about the heritage or the site as a whole.

A tour guide knows how the best way to share his or her knowledge in an engaging manner. Repeating the facts told is not a good practice and must not be done by a professional one. It can make the situation redundant and thus will lose the interest of the listeners. Also, an encouraging ability must be present to let everyone participate.

A guide must know when to be serious and when to be funny. A very serious person is most of the time not taken as effective while a very funny one cannot deliver the real message as well. It is good to take a break and talk of the things they love. Every one must be encouraged to speak about the site or about the things they love to do.

A guide must be observant as well. If there are a group of visitors, they must not expect that everyone is the same. There is a high possibility of age and culture difference. It will then be their duty to reach out to everybody and determine their needs. He must know exactly how to deal with everyone.

To spend mostly out of the Haida Gwaii tours, the guide must be all the time flexible in various circumstances. Being flexible is one of the most important and therefore must be practiced all the time. He or she must know how to react in every possibility without losing his or her professionalism.




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