What's the difference between a travel consultant and a tour guide?

Tourism consultants refer to professionals who are engaged in providing tourism consulting services and related services for tourism groups or individuals. The professional definition of tourism consultant is: a professional who is engaged in providing tourism consulting and related services for tourism enterprises, tourism teams or individuals, and is a professional compound middle and senior management talent in modern tourism. It is not only a travel consultant for high-end guests (providing customers with travel solutions, helping to book travel routes, safeguarding tourists' rights and interests, consulting on tourism health and financial management, developing and maintaining high-end customers, etc.). ), is also a business management consultant for tourism enterprises (providing solutions in human resources, marketing, financial management, tourism planning and other aspects for business management).

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.