How to find the perfect private tour guide?
How to find the perfect private tour guide?
A few years ago everybody used his travel agency just around the corner to organize their next vacation. But people more and more are using the internet to book a hotel or a flight. It's really easy, fast and cheap to book flights and hotels over the internet. But to hire a private guide over Internet why not? In the last year there came up a few websites that help connecting travellers with local guides. The idea is simple, the tour guide creates a profile with information about herself and the traveller can find, share and book the guide who is perfect for him.
These websites have advantages over the traditional travel agency:
- You get to know the private guide before you book, you can speak with him and can discuss details and all this before you go.
- You decide which guide you want to do a tour with, not the travel agency is assigning you to the tour guide they earn the most commission
- Did I say commission, yes, when you book through a travel agency they earn commission. Normally they aren't directly in contact with the guide, more over there is a incoming agency in between who will also gain some money. Probably the tour guide can give you directly a much better price than the travel agency.
- And it's a fair trade: The tour guide get's his money without giving the main part of his earnings to the travel agents. And you as a traveller won't pay such a high price as you normally do at the travel agency. A win win for both.
So to use a local guiding website for locating private tour guides has its advantages. But how do I know which guide is reliable and trustworthy? Well that's why I recommend you to use a website where you'll find detailed information about the tour guide like:
- a copy of the tour guide licence if he is a professional tour guide
- Reviews and ratings of previous clients. This ensures that the guide will be highly motivated to do a good service. If he won't do a good service he will receive a bad user rating and won't be booked again from other clients
- There's also one website where the tour guides can demonstrate their competence by answering travel questions and by writing travel tips to share their insider knowledge. Comparison of 3 wireless reading device applications Enjoying The Extravagance Of Tours By Staying In Conveniently-Priced Yet Top-Quality Hotels Grand Rajasthan Tour: Explore The Splendor Of India Tourism Top Three Travel Destinations The Only Summer Cocktail You'll Ever Need The Season's Top Holiday Songs A Basic Whitsunday Trip Guide Perversity of the American Justice System RV Travel Fun In Oregon RV Travel Fun in Washington State iPhone/iPad delivers airline and cruise travel bookings at unbeatable prices Travel To Atteridgeville, South Africa High Auction Staged Triple Trading Company Shares, "she Tunxiang" - Triple Trading Company