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The times of mass tourism are gradually receding into the past. Today, many people prefer individual travel instead of group travel, refusing a clear program, time frame and other constraints. As it turned out to the surprise of many of them, it’s not so expensive, especially if you go within a mini-group of 3-5 people. Besides, an individual approach has much more advantages than the classical one.

France, the United States, or Thailand? A fascinating tour of old town streets, a gastronomic tour, or passive beach-related rest? What drives people of different ages and social strata to choose one or another tourist destination, you can know from the statistics and sociological surveys presented as infographics. 

What reasons encourage people to go on a trip to tropical countries, and what makes them go to a cold climate? What do the world statistics and data of sociological surveys say? Some useful Rules for Traveling During the COVID-19 Pandemic for 2020-2021. What do you need to know before you buy a trip? How to book air tickets, hotels, tours, and excursions with the possibility to cancel and not lose money? How to secure your travel with travel insurance?

Sometimes the guide’s behaviors and character traits produce such a painful impression that the tour does not trigger to tourists nothing but irritation. What weak points produce the greatest dissatisfaction?

It is not clear for novice guides what they really have to deal with. The area of responsibility is the first thing that should be deeply felt by the guide beginning to work.

As a local tour guide, you deal with the whole world when expectant customers need to have their dream trip tailored. You have to be good at listening and uncovering what it is that the customers want. Therefore, it is essential to have empathy and human knowledge, so that you can understand and design trips for all types of travel needs. The local tour guide's job thus consists of guiding the customers based on his own travel experiences - and precisely for this reason, his own travels and "knowledge of the world" are an essential part of his daily work.

Let’s start off by saying that you can’t reduce to zero the probability of conflict with a tourist. However, you can be prepared for some of the situations and prevent their negative developments.

In this part we’re speaking about how to create a description of your tours, to get from tourists as much feedback as possible.

To attract the attention of tourists to your services and get more orders, you need the right approach to your profile design. In this article we'll show you how to make an account on the site as efficient as possible.

So, you were asked to organize a wedding tour in Barcelona. Do not despair or advise the bridal couple against making a formal or symbolic ceremony in this fairytale city, full of architectural mysteries, just because your experience, at best, is limited to such activities only at home. You are quite capable of doing this difficult at first sight task.

The budget planning service for tourists is becoming more popular every year. It is convenient and economical in terms of time. How to help the traveler decide on the right amount for the next spending? Guide’s straight and direct questions about the amount of money would scare anyone, but a subtle psychological approach and a properly made dialogue would help establish contact.

Planning to visit Barcelona, Prague, or Paris, and learn something new not from boring guidebooks but from fascinating excursions? Or maybe you are one of those lucky ones who know their city or country very well and do know, and most importantly do want to share this information with visitors? Both in the first and in the second case we have something to offer you. We’ll teach you how to properly organize your leisure time, no matter who you are, a keen traveler or a beginning tourist, we’ll also tell you the right path to direct your knowledge to gain from communication both pleasure and money. So…

A private tour guide profession has its advantages and disadvantages. What are a tourist's expectations about a local private tour guide's appearance, education, knowledge, humor, attitude, character, behavior, and ethics? Could this job be only part-time entertainment or a serious regular occupation for a living? How could a local tour guide be attractive to tourists? We give some recommendations for local tour guides and hope they will be pretty useful!