Tour guides are mainly divided into Chinese tour guides and foreign language tour guides. Its main job is to guide tourists to feel the beauty of mountains and rivers, solve possible emergencies during the journey, and help tourists in food, accommodation and transportation.
In China, anyone who wants to engage in tour guide business activities must take the tour guide qualification examination as required. Those who pass the examination shall be entrusted by the tourism administrative department of the State Council to issue the qualification certificate for tour guides by the tourism administrative department of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. At present, tour guides are usually affiliated with travel agencies or concentrated in specialized tour guide service management institutions. ?
20 15 The incident of female tour guides abusing tourists in Yunnan once again pushed the tour guide profession to the forefront. Relevant reporters learned that there are four "phenomena" in tour guides: no basic salary, no security, no dignity and no identity. The Measures for the Administration of Tour Guides will be officially implemented from 20 18 1. Tour guides are not allowed to change their itinerary, cheat or force consumption without authorization.
184 1 On July 5th, 2008, Thomas Cook, an Englishman, organized 570 people to take a chartered bus from Leicester to Rockburg to attend the prohibition meeting. This tourism activity is recognized by the world as the dividing line between modern tourism activities and ancient tourism activities.
1845, Thomas Cook organized 350 people to travel to Liverpool. Before the trip, he distributed information about travel itinerary and tourism. He personally led the team and hired local people to explain to the tour guides along the way. This activity originally had a commercial tour guide, but the professional "tour guide" officially appeared in 185 1. That year, the first World Expo was held in London, and professional tour guides appeared.
The birth of modern tourism is the emergence of "Thomas Cook Tourism Company". From the beginning, it took "everything serves the public" as its purpose, so Thomas Cook is recognized as the founder of modern tourism in the world.
With regard to modern tourism in China, 1923 In August, Mr. Chen Guangfu, general manager of Shanghai Commercial Reserve Bank, set up a tourism department in the bank, which was the first China tourism enterprise founded by China people. From June 65438 to June 0927, the Ministry of Tourism became independent from the bank and established China Travel Agency.