How much is the guide's salary? Is the salary good?

The basic salary of tour guides is average, mainly based on commission. The average scenic spot is about two thousand a month. If you do well, the scenic spots are good, so you can get familiar with the driver. Good attractions can get four or five thousand.

At present, the income of tour guides generally consists of four parts: basic salary+company benefit+rebate+tip. The basic salary is generally 300 to 450 yuan; The benefit award is determined according to the group's income, and the rebate includes customer shopping rebate (commonly known as "tying shop") and scenic spot ticket rebate; Tips are divided between the tour guide and the driver, and the fees for crossing the bridge in expressway, tickets for scenic spots, etc. Those who need the tour guide to take care of themselves have been deducted.

In this way, some tour guides earn as much as 200 thousand yuan a year. Foreign tour guides are much higher than local tour guides, and there is a big gap between peak season income and off-season.

On the surface, the tour guide profession has many attractions. In addition to traveling with tourists, you can easily step into the ranks of urban high-income groups. But only a few tour guides can get high salaries.

No matter whether there is a monthly basic salary or not, tour guides will get a certain allowance when they leave the group. Throughout the country, the allowance for tour guides is about 200-500 yuan/day, depending on the local tourism market.

Full-time tour guides have a large number of tours and their income is relatively stable. Generally speaking, the allowance of full-time tour guides will be lower than that of part-time tour guides. Travel agencies only use part-time tour guides when there is a large shortage of tour guides during the tourist season.

Of course, there are also a few tour groups that travel with negative group fees. Tour guides basically have no tour guide fees, and some even have to pay a certain "head fee" to the travel agency to make up for the lack of tour fees, and then encourage tourists to shop or participate in self-funded projects, from which a certain proportion can be extracted. This kind of zero-paid or even negative-paid tour guide is very common in some places.

Rebates and tips belong to the "hidden income" of tour guides, which some people call "gray income" and are also the dominant income of tour guides. The place where kickbacks exist is generally a shopping mall, which is a bonus point. When the shopping store gets the commission back, adding some points means adding a scenic spot that is not in the itinerary and earning a rebate with the ticket price difference.

There is a great controversy about the nature of tour guide rebate in society. In Bian Xiao's view, tour guides constantly improve their professional level, and in the process of taking the tour group, they provide services for tourists with physical strength and mental power, and act as "big stewards" accompanying the tour.

At the same time, it is not so abrupt for the tour guide to receive kickbacks, which is also the feedback paid by tourists to the tour guide. They use their high adaptability and ability to solve emergencies in time, and their sincere service attitude and professional skills to improve the quality of tourists' travel and make reasonable and legal shopping and extra points.

However, tour guides also have high income and low income. After all, every industry is like this. Different travel agencies and different tourist routes will make the income of tour guides different! Therefore, it is difficult for tour guides to make money, and there are not many high-income ones, only a few!