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Is there a future for study tour planning and tour guides (overseas)?

The work of an outbound tour leader is very hard. If you want to become a tour leader, you need to obtain a tour leader certificate first. There is a big difference in income. Foreign-language tour guides earn more than Chinese-speaking tour guides. Among the Mandarin-speaking tour guides, those who specialize in compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan earn more than ordinary junior tour guides. Those few people in the industry who have done well know that a monopoly situation is slowly forming.

The tourism industry has developed rapidly in recent years. Foreign-funded travel agencies are slowly entering the country. Foreign tourists are also beginning to take an optimistic view of China, a land with vast resources and rich tourism resources. Foreign-language tour guides should have better prospects than Mandarin-language tour guides. If you have connections and can get clients from large companies, or there is a strong flow of tourists in a certain country, foreign language tour guides can live a life that is above a moderately prosperous life. When you get older, it would be better to start your own travel agency or change your career to work for a foreign company. way out.

(1) Foreign tour guides are the dissemination of culture and knowledge. Foreign tourists often ask various questions to foreign tour guides out of curiosity about new things. Many foreign tour guides are often left speechless due to insufficient knowledge. A qualified foreign tour guide does not end up reciting a scripted explanation of a certain scenic spot to tourists.

The important reason is that the depth of knowledge is not enough. It can be seen that the level of knowledge of foreign tour guides directly affects tourists' travel emotions and the normal development of tour guides' work. Therefore, only if you have profound knowledge and can teach knowledge to tourists, so as to educate and entertain, can tourists stay interested in traveling. Foreign tour guides must not only have knowledge of astronomy and geography, but aesthetic knowledge is also particularly important. Foreign language tour guides should use their knowledge reserves to connect Chinese landscapes with Western culture and take advantage of the situation.

(2) Make predictions based on surveys to provide a reliable basis for further development. Accurate forecasts help to discover the changes and development patterns of market supply and demand from a large number of complex factors, thereby providing a basis for qualitative and quantitative analysis in formulating tourism planning and business strategies. It enables tourism enterprises to understand the tourism market environment, the life cycle of tourism products, the competitiveness of their own products and the competitiveness of their competitors, provide reliable basis for further decision-making, and avoid blindness and huge losses caused by blindness.

(3) Strengthen and improve information services for tourists. In addition to in-depth research and information processing of the demand market, it is also indispensable to strengthen information services in the supply market. Judging from the development trend of world tourism, individual tourists have increasingly become the mainstream of the international tourist source market. Individual tourists have requirements for information services in the supply market. Some major tourism countries in the world have established information service centers and formed networks with each other to provide travel services. , accommodation, entertainment, shopping and a series of services. Tourism information centers should be established across the country as soon as possible and connected into a national network to provide tourists with the best information consulting services, so as to continuously develop new customer sources.

(4) Launch a multi-level and diversified supply of tourism products. Since the late 1980s, the demand for foreign language guided tours has been developing in a diversified direction. In order to adapt to this development, my country's tourism industry must establish a multi-level and diversified supply market based on local resource conditions and local conditions, and carry out unique special tourism. Develop foreign language tour guides. It can increase employment opportunities and labor positions and promote the development of the domestic economy; it is also conducive to carrying forward the traditional culture of the Chinese nation and providing a solid platform for promoting excellent culture; it is also conducive to strengthening exchanges with the world and making it easier to learn advanced foreign cultures, thereby further promoted reforms.

In short, foreign language tour guides are of great significance. For the development of the national economy, for the admiration of national culture, and for the harmony of the world. Therefore, we should vigorously develop foreign language tour guides and promote the development of international tourism.