What is the role of guide?

A guide is a person who leads travelers, sportspeople, or tourists through unknown or unfamiliar locations. The term can also be applied to a person who leads others to more abstract goals such as knowledge or wisdom.



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Local guides are local experts. Guides know all the best haunts in their city and can provide insider access that enables you to experience a destination like a local.

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Tour guides accompany groups of visitors to tourist attractions, whether on day trips or longer visits, and give them information and insights that help them make the most of the experience. Potential tour guides should be fit and healthy with lots of energy and confidence.

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Tour guides undertake research and plan tours, provide sightseeing advice, and organize excursions. They transport and accompany their guests to the tourist spots in specific destinations. They are expected to be experts on the historical background and culture of an area.

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A good tour guide is articulate, easy to understand, has the physical capabilities to command attention and project their voice across potentially large groups of people. They should also be able to communicate one on one, answer questions with calm and remain approachable even when under pressure.

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Driver Guide Tours' job is to help you. Your job is to enjoy the trip. Your tour guide can plan a day's itinerary to fit you. Some like to spend time in an art gallery, others long for the golf course or pub.

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Communication is one of the most important skills of a tour guide. Guests rely on tour guides to provide direction, share facts and information, and keep them entertained throughout the tour. As such, a tour guide must speak fluently and coherently.

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Although the names are practically interchangeable, a tourist guide suggests that the tour in question will include foreign visitors, whereas a tour guide just takes anyone on a tour, regardless of whether they are tourists or not.

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Typical responsibilities include:
  • undertaking research and planning tours.
  • preparing and giving presentations.
  • offering sightseeing advice.
  • organising and leading excursions.
  • problem solving.
  • translating and interpreting.
  • transporting and accompanying tourists.


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This introduction is usually short (5 minutes) and is normally structured like this: Say hello, welcome them, thank them for booking with you, introduce the tour and get the travelers' interest.

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