What is the future development prospect of tour guide profession?

First, the classification of tour guides

According to the work area, it can be divided into overseas tour leaders, full-time accompanying tour guides, local accompanying tour guides and scenic spots tour guides.

According to the language, it can be divided into Chinese tour guides (including Mandarin, dialects and minority languages) and foreign language tour guides (including English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian and other languages).

According to the technical level, it can also be divided into primary, intermediate, advanced and super tour guides.

Then, knowing the classification of tour guide qualification certificate, what is the career development of tour guide? In terms of career development and choice, if you are a language tour guide, you can actually be a translation of foreign trade later. Such as English, French, Japanese, Korean and other languages.

If you take the basic tour guide-intermediate tour guide-advanced tour guide, then your career path may change from tour guide to management. If you study hard, you can take the tour guide qualification before taking the master of tourism management, and consider staying in school to become a management professional teacher.

In addition, you can do scenic spots related work when you go to the hotel; Rich people can open hotel restaurants; If you have a good eloquence, you can give full play to your eloquence advantage and consider transforming into a host; If you are good at writing, you can become a freelance writer from the media; Strong planning ability, can do tourism planning; You can also change careers or start your own travel agency.

Second, the career development of tour guides

Among the current tour guides, foreign language tour guides have a particularly high income, while small language tour guides are the scarcest and have the greatest market demand. Beijing receives 3 million overseas tourists every year, involving 26 languages. Except for major languages such as English and Japanese, there are hardly enough tour guides in other minor languages. There are five tour guides in Portuguese, only 1 in Greek, Mongolian, Vietnamese, Swedish and Albanian, and there are not many other tour guides like Spanish, Korean, Russian, Thai and Indonesian.

Among nearly 4,000 Mandarin and local language tour guides, local language tour guides are rare. It is reported that there are only 100 Cantonese tour guides, 1 Minnan tour guides and1Hakka and Taishan tour guides in Beijing.

The number of advanced tour guides also needs to be improved. Among the 7,000-8,000 tour guides in Beijing, there are only over 200 senior tour guides, only 500-600 intermediate tour guides, and the rest are junior tour guides. The tourism management department expects high-quality tour guides to join the industry as soon as possible.

The above is an introduction to the career prospects of tour guides, and I hope it will help you. If you are really interested in this industry, I suggest you complete the registration as soon as possible, prepare for the exam as soon as possible, and then you can pass the exam at one time and become an excellent tour guide as soon as possible.