Course Title: Get Paid to Travel
Hours required: 24
Price: $99
Length course offered: 6 Weeks
Instructor: Cherie Anderson [Bio]
Description:
If you love to travel and enjoy working with individuals, tour directing, tour guiding, and cruise hosting may be the career for you!
As a professional tour director or tour guide, you're hired by tour operators, destination management companies, and incentive houses to escort groups on local programs, domestic tours, international tours, and cruises. You may be on an African safari one week and cruising the Seven Seas the next, earning as much as $1900 per week. If you prefer local work, there's plenty of opportunity with local tour operators, destination management companies, and receptive services. You'll find it challenging, exciting, rewarding, and never, ever dull!
The course covers the how-to for part-time and full-time careers. You'll learn everything you need to be successful and how to acquire a position as a professional tour director, tour guide, and cruise host. This includes procedures for international and domestic airports, hotel and motor coach procedures, attractions, tour briefings, narration, and documentation. Other topics include how to deal with tour members, tour safety, and how to handle emergencies effectively.
In addition, you'll learn about career opportunities and how to gain experience and employers for local, domestic, and international travel careers.Tourism is the fastest growing industry in the world. Learn how to be part of it today!
Goals:
Learn everything you need to start your new and exciting career in travel.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
No matter where you live, you will be able to take any of our comprehensive, convenient online courses offered in connection with a college or university near you. Click "Enroll Now" to find the partner school for the course you want to take.
Instructor Bio: Cherie Anderson
Cherie Anderson earned her BA at Arizona State University in Secondary Education. She completed her graduate work at California State University of Northridge. She has over 20 years of extensive travel experience throughout the world as an international tour director and cruise host. Her tours have included travel to China, Asia, the South Pacific, North and South America, Europe, and Russia, among other places. Cherie has more than ten years classroom experience training students how to be professional tour directors. Today, her former students can be found escorting tours throughout the world.
