What are the guidelines for tour guide work?

Knowledge of policies and regulations is the guideline for the work of tour guides.

Extended information:

Tour guides are mainly divided into Chinese tour guides and foreign language tour guides. Its main job content is to guide tourists to experience the beauty of mountains and rivers, solve emergencies that may occur during the journey, and provide tourists with assistance in food, accommodation, transportation, etc.

Overseas tour guide refers to a staff member appointed by a travel agency that can operate outbound tourism business with the approval of the national tourism administrative department, and has full authority to lead tour groups to engage in tourism activities on behalf of the travel agency.

The tour guide who accompanies the tour group (abbreviated to the tour guide) refers to being appointed by the group travel agency, as a representative of the tour group, implementing the reception plan with the cooperation of the tour leader and local accompanying tour guides, and providing tour groups (persons) with Staff accompanying you throughout the entire trip.

The tour group agency or group travel agency here refers to a travel agency that accepts reservations from tour groups (persons) or overseas travel agencies, formulates and issues reception plans, and can provide full escort tour services. The tour leader here refers to the staff member who is appointed by an overseas travel agency to lead the tour group to engage in tourism activities on behalf of the travel agency.

Local accompanying tour guides (referred to as local tour guides) refer to staff members who are appointed by the host travel agency to implement the reception plan on behalf of the host agency and provide local tourist activity arrangements, explanations, translation and other services to the tour group (persons). . The reception agency or reception travel agency here refers to a travel agency that accepts the entrustment of the tour group agency and appoints local accompanying tour guides according to the reception plan to organize and arrange local tours and other activities for the tour group (persons).

Scenic area tour guides, also known as docents, refer to the staff who provide guided tours for tourists in tourist attractions, such as museums and nature reserves.

Full-time tour guides refer to tour guides who take tour guide work as their main occupation within a certain period of time. This type of tour guides are generally formal employees of travel agencies, and they are the main body of my country's current tour guide team.

Part-time tour guides, also known as amateur tour guides, refer to those who do not take tour guide work as their main occupation but use their spare time to engage in tour guide work.

This type of personnel is divided into two types: one is those who have passed the unified national tour guide qualification examination and obtained a tour guide certificate and are engaged in part-time tour guide work; the other is those who have specific language skills and are employed by travel agencies and receive Persons who hold a temporary tour guide certificate and temporarily engage in tour guide activities.