Are tour guides paid well?

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.

From the perspective of income, only a few tour guides have a basic salary, but the premise is that they must return to work in their travel agency without a tour group. Their income is relatively stable. In addition to the basic salary, they will be given a certain allowance for going abroad, and sometimes they will have some income in their business dealings. Their survival can be said to be basically guaranteed.

Tour guides also have to bear the double pressure from travel agencies and tourists. Tourists hope to get high-quality service from tour guides, and they think it is natural to pay the tour fee and enjoy the service, but they don't know that the tour guide didn't get any corresponding treatment from the travel agency when he took the tour.

Tour guides are divided into full-time and part-time. Full-time tour guides belong to a travel agency and can't grab jobs from other travel agencies casually. Travel agencies pay full-time tour guides a certain basic salary. Part-time tour guides are "freemen" who can contact many travel agencies and bring different teams, but they don't have a fixed basic salary and their income is unstable.

In addition, at the entrance of most tourist attractions, there will be some tour guides, also known as "point escorts", mainly staff in the scenic spots. Their treatment is relatively stable, with a monthly salary and bonus, belonging to office workers. "point escort" is mainly aimed at individual travelers, which saves the fatigue of long-distance travel with the group.

It is much more difficult to be a tour guide. They took tourists around one scenic spot after another, and safety came first, especially at the scene where there was a car accident along the way or in Lu Yu. For tour guides, the psychological pressure is very great.

So it is unrealistic to live on the basic salary of tour guides. In fact, the income of tour guides is mainly obtained by taking tours, which is much higher than the basic salary. Therefore, it is not feasible to earn money by obtaining a tour guide card. As a tour guide, you must practice hard to improve your professional level and the quality of taking tours. This is the way to make money.

In addition, the number of tours ensures more money!

At present, most of the tour guides of some individual or small travel agencies have no basic salary, and even if they do, they are very low. In addition, in order to grab tourists, travel agencies are increasingly competing at low prices, charging tourists ultra-low travel expenses, and tour guide income is mainly earned by kickbacks. For large teams with full-time escorts (and tour leaders), the rebate is distributed among local accompanying tour guides, drivers, full-time accompanying tour guides (and tour leaders), travel agencies and tour bus companies. The common practice is that after local tour guides get kickbacks from businesses or scenic spots, local tour guides and drivers each get 40%, and full tour guides get 20%.

But the key is not the distribution ratio, but how much money tourists buy when shopping, and then what is the rebate ratio of merchants, because different clubs contact different Chongqing clubs and go to different shopping spots, and the rebate will be different. In this case, once the number of shopping spots is reduced or the travel itinerary is changed, the income of tour guides will be affected.