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Free walking tour: concept, legal and tips
The concept of a free walking tour has generated some confusion and controversy with the growing protests by associations and tour guide groups. They affirm that this type of collaborative tours provoke an unfair situation with respect to the ...
How to write the script for my tour?
A free walking tour is like a play: each word is of vital importance to transmit your speech in the best way and touch the emotions of your travelers. In this post, we will explain how to create an amazing script, which will be the bible of your ...
Tour description: What convinces travelers the most?
It’s so crucial to have the best tour description possible: it will bring you more bookings and will also draw a better picture of the reality of your tour, so that it matches travelers’ expectations. In this post, you will learn, step by step, how ...
The complete beginners guide to create an amazing guided tour
Thanks to this post, you will be able to create a guided tour in just 4 key steps. We explain the basics of each stage, but all the information is detailed in a full post that we strongly recommend you read. Content [+] 1. Choose the main topic of ...
Route and Points of Interest
What is taken into account in this factor and why is it so important? The pace of the tour should be adapted to the group. Keeping a medium pace (neither fast nor slow) will keep your group active and will help them follow the guiding thread of your ...
Quality information
Why is this factor so important? Nowadays,the cultural knowledge of travelers has significantly increased. With this in mind, if you are not 100% sure about how to answer a very specific question, please do not make it up. This will make a huge ...
Professionalism
What do the walkers value the most? Time keeping is one of the factors that walkers value the most as a sign of professionalism. It is important that when the first walkers arrive you are already at the meeting point.We recommend you to be there ...
How to make a funny tour ?
A fun tour should be like a roller coaster and it’s you who has the power to design the experience, and most importantly, to make it fun. Stick with the idea that a roller coaster is an attraction with a flawless design, that focuses on experiences ...
VIDEO – 9 tips to improve your communication skills for the tour!
As a great guide, you want travelers to listen to you, understand what you say, and always be the center of their attention during the tour. In this video, you can find 9 tips on how to improve your communication skills. Let’s go! A tour guide’s ...
Tour stops: how to create amazing explanations?
In this post, we give you the best tricks to give amazing explanations during your tour! All these tips are valid only if you take into account the type of travelers you have on your tour, since the more relevant the story, the more involved ...
Common mistakes of tour guides (+ how to avoid them)
When you start as a tour guide, we all make mistakes and the worst part is that in many cases, we don’t even notice them! That’s why we wrote this post with the most common mistakes tour guides can have when starting to receive their first groups of ...
An interactive tour: how to get travelers involved? (VIDEO)
Travelers are getting bored, they don’t pay attention to what you say, they lose focus… This happens because you’re too focused on “explaining” and not on “capturing travelers’ attention”. And one way to wake up your travelers is to create an ...
How to explain about the payment to travelers?
Should you explain how free walking tours work? If yes, in which way? When starting the tour or at the end? When and how is it okay to suggest a high payment? Etc. As you see, there are lots of questions around the payment on a free walking tour and ...
The complete guide to create an amazing guided tour (or improve your tour!)
Thanks to this post, you will be able to create a guided tour in just 4 key steps. Thanks to the following table of content, you can go to the section that really interest you. However, if you're starting from zero, we recommend you reading this post ...