Job details
- JobBank Id: 42263555
- JobSeekr Id: 329910
- Tour Guide
- Scarborough, ON
- 4675 Steeles Ave East
- Full time
- Splendid Canada Travel
- $28.50
- 30 to 40 hours per week
Overview
Languages
English
Education
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No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work setting
- Tourism/travel services
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Confirm transportation and accommodation reservations
- Collect administration or entrance fees
- Co-ordinate recreation activities
- Describe points of interest, answer questions and supply information
- Resolve itinerary and other problems
- Ensure and monitor luggage transfers
- Assist clients with check-in procedures for accomodation and/or transportation
- Utilize microphones or other communication device to provide directions and other pertinent information to visitors
- Attend to international border crossings
- Co-ordinate activities with local tour guides or leaders of performance groups
- Provide information on tipping customs, currency exchange rates, metric conversion and other details
- Assist clients/guests with special needs
- Conduct guided tours of museums, gallery exhibitions and historical, heritage and other sites, answer inquiries and provide information
- Transport or escort individuals or groups on tours of cities, waterways and industrial and other establishments
Experience and specialization
Tours focus
- Foreign countries
- Sightseeing
- Bus tours
Number of tours guided
- 10 tours and +
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Willing to travel
- Willing to travel cross-border
- Willing to travel overnight
- Willing to travel regularly
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Walking
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Reliability