Friday, September 6, 2013

How To Have The Best Of Your Tours

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By Helene Norris


You may be planning to visit a certain place for adventure, fun or your other personal reasons. You are not familiar with the place so in order to get the most of your Haida Gwaii tours, it all boils down to right information and communication or the quality of your tour guide. Below are the important qualities of a guide that you must choose.

All tour guides must learn how to understand a visitor. If yours is not then learn from it and you better try the best one next time. It is important that they must know how to speak in various languages including yours. If fortunately they can, they must deliver it clearly and correctly for your own understanding.

He or she must be the one waiting for you not you waiting for him or her. They need to have a good mindset that visitors do arrive and depart on time. Time is gold and you must spend it wisely. You do not have all the time to stay in a place so make sure that a late leader will not affect it.

An approachable guide means friendly. He or she must deliver this spirit and your journey will be alright and fruitful. They should also be able to follow each member of the team without having a bossy feeling. They can be approachable without losing their ability as a leader. They must not instill the openness in each visitor.

Their knowledge to the place especially the history is very important. A leader is there to help, explain and guide everyone. They must answer and clarify each question that you are planning to ask. They must enhance your overall understanding of the entire site.

Tour leaders must be able to partake the knowledge effectively to the visitors. It must be in an engaging and illuminating way that will not confuse anyone. All the facts must be delivered clearly and in a very understanding manner. Any repetition must be avoided for the visitors not to lose interest. They should know how to encourage the listeners to participate in each discussion.

A funny guide is what you are looking and wanting for. There must be a certain level of good humor. It is very essential as too serious is boring. It is essential for them to include a little time for break and for laughter and when exactly to be serious and encourage you to listen while they are speaking for the site.

A guide must be observant as well. If there are a group of visitors, they must not expect that everyone is the same. There is a high possibility of age and culture difference. It will then be their duty to reach out to everybody and determine their needs. He must know exactly how to deal with everyone.

To make the most out of your Haida Gwaii tours, your attendant needs to be flexible in every situation that you will be having. Being one means they must be open to any possibilities that could happen. They must good masters in terms of reacting in various moments particularly during difficult times without losing patience and posture.




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