So let’s dive in! You want to become an international tour guide. Looking at a destination through someone’s knowledgeable (and interesting) perspective, makes travel mean more, and your vacation more memorable. They’re the people making your experiences come alive, and mean more. We at TripSchool believe that guides are the face of the travel industry. Perhaps you took a great tour and thought “hey! I could do this!” or you’ve worked an office job for a long time, and are ready to go into the non-cubicle world. And yet, annoyingly, it’s not a job that shows up on a career quiz, and so we all end up discovering it by accident.

Guiding is exhilarating: you spend your days interacting out in the world with people excited to listen to you. Are you sick of an office, a boss breathing down your neck, and the endless monotony of a job that doesn’t challenge and inspire you? It might be time to think about a travel industry career, and becoming a tour guide is more exciting, engaging and interesting than you may think! The past couple of years have made so many of us rethink what we want our futures to be.

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