Main advantages of becoming a guide or local on TravelPapa

• Meeting new people and making new friends

In case, if you do not consider yourself an absolutely communicative person, but you love silence and peaceful atmosphere of your living room - the profession of a private tour guide doesn’t suits you at all. A private tour guide has to communicate with other people a lot (extremely a lot), should know how to interact with absolutely unknown travelers and should always be in a good mood in order to make the trip interesting and exciting for everyone. It’s not that easy as it sounds, but nevertheless, it provides a private guide with a possibility to always make new friends from the foreign countries and learning something himself from the foreign guests of his city.

• You are your own boss

A private guide is the only one to organize his own working day, including his duties, working hours, weekends, holidays and so on and so on. There is no one else to tell you what kind of travel routes to offer to other travelers, where to go and where not to, where should you look for your clients and how to promote your own tours and travel services - you are the only one to decide on all of this things. It may sound absolutely fantastic for some reasons, but nevertheless, it is a huge responsibility, too, as you have to be extremely self-organized and answer for everything on your own.

• Active lifestyle

The job of a private tour guide differs from any other job quite a lot, at least due to its extremely active “lifestyle”, as you always have to walk a lot in the fresh air (usually for a very long distances) and it even doesn’t matter what kind of season it is and what weather is there outside.

So, in case if you are in love with sport, walking, fresh air, nature and all the possible active kinds of entertainment - here is one more advantage for you to become a private tour guide in your city.

 

• Instant self-education

The profession of a private tour guide always requires the self-education of a guide and the instant enlarging of his interests, knowledge and his/her inner world in general. The world around is instantly changing, new sightseeings appear, archaeologists discover new things and new travel destinations are getting more and more popular with every day.

So if you know your city well enough to show it to foreigners - start learning more about the neighboring cities and different nature sights of your country - because you may never know, what exactly your customers will be interested in.

• Multiple benefits of joining TravelPapa as a tour guide or local

So what are the main benefits of becoming a private tour guide or, maybe, a local exactly together with TravelPapa? There are lots of them!

First of all you get a convenient platform to offer you tours, excursions and any other travel services, no matter how many of them you have at the moment, including all the tiniest details of information and even your travel photos from the trips.

Secondly, you are the only one to decide on the amount of commission to give TravelPapa, so you decide yourself how many you would like to share.

Thirdly, after becoming a member of TravelPapa’s large travel family, you are getting promoted from time to time via TravelPapa’s weekly news posts, promotion articles, posts in social media and etc.

And at last, you get the professional travel support team, which is always available 24/7, speaks numerous languages and is always ready to answer all of your question, regarding to the usage of the website, your travel services, TravelPapa’s terms and any other questions that you may ever have.                                                  

So, what do you think? In the few words once again, the job of a private tour guide is a perfect choice for those, who is fond of meeting the new people, communicating and walking a lot, never sitting on the same place for a long time, for those, who are self-organized, can push themselves forward and that are never forgetting about self-education and self-improvement. If all these thing (or at least the major part) is about you, then this is a perfect choice for you. Become a private tour guide or turn into a local today together with TravelPapa!