The difference between tour guide, tour leader, full-time escort and local escort

The tour leader, the whole escort and the local escort are called tour guides, and a tour group needs to be divided into group agencies and local agencies to operate.

For example, the travel agency in A organizes a team to travel to B. The travel agency in A is a tour group, and the tour guide in the agency is accompanied by the whole trip and is responsible for the whole trip. On the other hand, there will be a ground agency to receive the team in place A, and the tour guide of the travel agency in place B is a ground escort, who is mainly responsible for the tour and accommodation of the team in place B..

The tour leader usually takes the outbound group and is responsible for the outbound group.

Tour guides are mainly divided into Chinese tour guides and foreign language tour guides. Its main job is to guide tourists to feel the beauty of mountains and rivers, solve possible emergencies during the journey, and help tourists in food, accommodation and transportation.

In China, anyone who wants to engage in tour guide business activities must take the tour guide qualification examination as required. Those who pass the examination shall be entrusted by the tourism administrative department of the State Council to issue the qualification certificate for tour guides by the tourism administrative department of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. At present, tour guides are usually affiliated with travel agencies or concentrated in specialized tour guide service management institutions.

A tour guide is a person who guides the tour, makes tourists feel the beauty of mountains and rivers, and helps tourists in food, accommodation, transportation and other aspects in this process, and solves possible problems during the tour.

Tour guides are divided into Chinese tour guides and foreign tour guides, which are called TourGuide or Guide in English. In China, tour guides must pass the national tour guide qualification examination before they can take up their posts. Nowadays, tour guides are generally affiliated with travel agencies or concentrated in specialized tour guide service management institutions.