December 5, 2008
Tour Guide blogs
Mike Richardson is back:
As a tour guide and a computer geek it was only a matter of time before I started my own blog based on the experiences I have as a tour guide and over the last year of blogging, my goals and ideas for the site have changed considerably. At this point blogging about my life as a tour guide is very random. Sometimes I post information about upcoming events in Munich, other times about what is going on with my tours, and sometimes it’s just about the weather.
It didn’t really occur to me until recently that I would be interested in reading other tour guides blogs. Guiding can be different from city to city let alone country to country and is usually not that easy of a job. While searching for blogs I came across this, which I disagree with in part (I only know one company that allows their guides to make stuff up, and they’re free tours), but overall find it to be basically funny and true. However, based on this, I think you can understand why I think tour guide blogs could be entertaining. There are guides who have written humorous books based on their experiences of tour guiding, for example former tour guide Brian Thacker, who also writes a blog, but no longer is a tour guide.
Oddly enough, after searching for quite a while, I haven’t found that many current tour guides that are blogging. It could also be that they just don’t come up on my searches…but I’ve run out of ideas of how else to search for them. Here are a few that I found:
Putu in Bali
Kathy in Scotland
Steve in Bavaria
If you’re going to any of those places, I think it would be nice to check the relevant blog and possibly take a tour with a guide that you found entertaining with his/her blog.
Do you know of some tour guide blogs? It’d be great if we could find one from most major cities around the world, maybe blogging isn’t to that point yet where we can. Travel blogs are nice, but I think blogs from people in the industry put an interesting twist on it.
-Mike Richardson, The Professional Tourist
Posted by James Trotta at December 5, 2008 9:36 PM | TrackBack
Not many of Koreans actually find a guide suitable for their travel. It is great to know an Indoneisan Guide from Bali. Next time I better find more information on Bali through PUTU's Blog.
Posted by: Youngho CHOI at December 7, 2008 9:53 PMTOUR guide blogs are so interesting. when I read theirs's experience, I feel in their even I didn't.
That was very exciting and meke me want to go to there.
Posted by: sang ki KIM at December 10, 2008 9:16 PM