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The three main areas of specialisation within the guiding industry are historical tour guiding, corporate tour guiding, and nature or eco-tour guiding. - Historical tour guides lead groups of visitors to national monuments, historical sites, historical districts, religious or archaeological sites, and museums. These guides are well-versed in the history of the site or monument. - Corporate tour guides are employed by large companies that are usually a well-known corporation or travel destination, though non-profit organizations often require guides as well. Theme parks often employ tour guides who lead visitors on tours of a museum within the park that documents the company's history of accomplishments. - Nature tour guides lead groups to natural attractions, national parks, and other outdoor locations where wildlife and scenic locations are the focus of the tour. These guides are experts in the natural sciences and have the ability to engage visitors with their knowledge of biology, geology, and the history of the location. Regardless of the specialisation of the tour guide, some fundamental responsibilities apply to all positions. Their primary responsibility is to make sure the tour is as safe as possible for the entire group. All the best.

A hotel housekeeper is someone responsible for ensuring rooms and other areas of a hotel are kept clean every day. A hotel housekeeping job description usually entails making beds, replacing used towels with new ones, vacuuming carpets, and cleaning and disinfecting bathrooms and ensuring new toiletries provided by the hotel are placed at appropriate places. Major jobs are as follows: (a) Performing a variety of cleaning activities such as sweeping, mopping, dusting and polishing (b) Ensuring all rooms are cared for and inspected according to standards (c) Protecting equipment and making sure there are no inadequacies (d) Notify superiors on any damages, deficits and disturbances (e) Deal with reasonable complaints/requests with professionalism and patience
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You can imagine the type of services provided is pretty broad. Typically, as a business concierge or corporate concierge, you can expect to deliver such services as coordinating dry-cleaning pickup and delivery to the work site, mobile detailing, shoe and jewelry repair, travel arrangements, event ticket procurement, and so on. Most services are targeted for completion by the end of the workday as an added convenience to the employee or tenant
Corporate concierge services are often added to a corporations work-benefits package as an incentive for new talent. This employee perk has also proven quite effective in increasing employee productivity and morale. Just as in a hotel, corporate concierges are located onsite for easy access. A full menu of services is provided to each employee with hours of operation and contact information. Many of the larger corporate concierge businesses use an online portal through which employees can utilise the service. Thank you.

An event planner will typically do the following:
Meet with clients to understand the purpose of the meeting or event. Plan the scope of the event, including time, location, programme, and cost. Work with the client to choose where to hold the event and whom to contract for services. Inspect places to ensure they meet the client's requirements. Coordinate event services such as rooms, transportation, and food service. Monitor event activities to ensure the client and event attendees are satisfied. Review event bills and approve payment. Whether it is a wedding, educational conference, or business convention, meetings and events bring people together for a common purpose. Meeting, convention, and event planners work to ensure that this purpose is achieved seamlessly. They coordinate every detail of events, from beginning to end. Event planners also search for potential meeting sites, such as hotels and convention centres. They consider the lodging and services that the facility can provide, how easy it will be for people to get there, and the attractions that the surrounding area has to offer. More recently, planners also consider whether an online meeting can achieve the same objectives as a face-to-face meeting. Thank you.

A job as a travel guide entails enabling visitors to experience a specific or several specific local activities to the fullest. Travel guides may be hired at a particular tourist destination, or be hired through a travel agency. Travel guides generally spend an entire day, or even more, with a group of tourists, taking them to various landmark spots in a particular area. Tour guides, on the other hand, normally specialize in giving tours of one particular tourist destination. There is no prerequisite to become a tour guide. There is no minimum or maximum age limit for the profession. It is preferred that tour guide be a graduate in any discipline, preferably art, archaeology, history and culture. Ministry of Tourism provides licenses to the tourist guides and also organizes Regional Level Tourist Guide Training Programmes. Many of the states in India have made registration of tourist guides mandatory. The tourism department holds examination which consists heavily of general knowledge, history and culture, etc. Thank you.