Tour guides greet and register visitors, present printed or digital data, and infrequently collect fees and tickets. Travel guides plan and operate long-distance excursions and expeditions for clients.

To start, serving as a tour guide taught me about Americans’ default preferences when reserving journeys to Europe. I speak a number of languages, including Italian, so the tour company often stationed me there for all of or a minimum of a part of a visit. It also meant that nearly everybody I guided lived beneath the Mason-Dixon line.

The three main areas of specialization within the guiding business are historical tour guiding, corporate tour guiding, and nature or eco-tour guiding. In Australia, tour guides are qualified to a minimum of Certificate III Guiding.]...