Hot summer tourism is heating up the tour guide market. There is a strong demand for foreign language tour guides in the market | tour guides | demand
CCTV News: This summer, the tourism market in Zhangjiajie, Hunan is booming, which has directly boosted the tour guide market. The number of tour guides who receive domestic and foreign tourists in Zhangjiajie has exceeded 6500.
Wang Xiaoqing is an English tour guide from Zhangjiajie, with 10 years of experience as an English tour guide. In the first half of this year, the Zhangjiajie tourism market received 136200 foreign tourists, and the demand for foreign language tour guides was strong. Wang Xiaoqing was once again busy.
Compared to before, the traditional tourism model has undergone significant changes, with a decrease in traditional tourism teams and an increase in research tours, parent-child tours, etc. This has also raised higher requirements for tour guides.
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Li Ping, Vice President of Zhangjiajie Tourism Association in Hunan Province: The regular team received by travel agencies may only be equivalent to 25% to 30% of the usual, and the requirements for tour guides in graduate tourism are also quite high. Every tour guide needs to be like a mentor, bringing more enlightenment to students.
In the first half of this year, Zhangjiajie received a total of 18.8922 million domestic and foreign tourists. At present, the number of local tour guides receiving domestic and foreign team guests has exceeded 6500, with provincial-level, national level, and foreign language tour guides in high demand. In order to meet market demand, the local government actively provides employment opportunities for tour guides who have not returned to work and provides high-quality services for tourists in Zhangjiajie.