Do you love to travel, explore new areas and discover their sights? Do you want to introduce tourists to the history and heritage of Croatian regions through interesting stories and encourage the creation of unique emotions and experiences?
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By training as a tour guide, you get the opportunity to turn your desire for travel and storytelling into a dynamic and creative job in an attractive tourist destination like Croatia, where there are still many interesting stories that no one has told tourists.
Since the season is upon us, we're revealing five interesting facts about the job of a tour guide.
1. Expand your social horizons
As a tour guide, you have a wonderful opportunity to meet new people every day and develop relationships with people from all over the world. This is not something you get if you work exclusively in an office, right?
2. Perfect your public speaking skills
In this job, you will learn a lot about yourself and develop numerous interpersonal skills, including presentation skills, non-verbal communication, diction, and the ability to attract and hold attention. These are the skills that can be useful in your further career development and in other professions.
3. Avoid the "9 to 5" routine
No two working days are the same in the job of a tour guide. You manage your own time, meet different people, visit many places, develop every day, and most importantly, you will never be stuck at an office desk for eight hours or more.
4. Get into different roles
In this job, you'll have many roles in just one day. One moment you're interpreting history, the next you're a speaker, the third you're leading a group of tourists and effortlessly solving current problems in the destination.
5. Generate additional income
Tourist guides who truly find their calling and become experts can be booked weeks in advance during the tourist season. Tourists recognize the quality of a good guide, so in addition to the standard fee, some of them receive additional financial incentives for quality work in the form of popular tips, bakshishes or trinkgeld.
If all of this sounds very challenging to you and you want to use this summer to develop your profile in this job, now is the right time to attend a seminar and take the professional exam for a tourist guide.
The professional knowledge you need to take the exam is provided by lecturers with many years of experience in the field, and the program will take place in the first half of April in the academic premises of VERN .
