I just did a Night Safari tour. This is a 'Sit-In-Coach' tour, ie, tourists signed up from various hotels' tour desks and the Travel Agents put them into one bus. Most times, each agent has bookings which could fill up 3 buses. So I was relieving for my friend Maria to be the guide for the tourists on the first bus.There were 2 other guides for the other coaches. Well, the 1st coach guide must do the transport arrangement to send the paxs back to hotels after the tour. That means, each coach should be alloted the hotels in nearby vicinity. This requires knowledge and years of experience. Now, this was my first time and it was rather challenging. My luck, I have Dyanna, a more experienced guide on the 3rd coach and she offered to help. Cut the story short, everything was fine. She is a darling among the guides, helpful, friendly and guides always crowd around her!
I have many Guide friends now, all kinds, all shapes and sizes.
There are guides guided by passion. These kind, bless them, I love to be with, for I am this kind. They are not choosy about jobs and they dont mind challenging ones. Then there are guides guided by money.They will go for the jobs which pay the highest and require the least effort. They often take tourists 'for a ride' providing very little service and making them visiting shops and signing up for optional tours in order to earn commissions.
Some guides, like Dyanna are helpful and you love working with them. Others are individualistic and will not help nor teach you what to do. Some are greedy, they will pocket all the comms which should be shared among the guides, if you are not careful. I have seen them all.
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