The Life of Adventure Travel Tour Guide – Episode 217

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Madeline Jhawar from Italy Beyond the Obvious about life as a tour guide for an adventure travel company.

Madeline was previously on the Amateur Traveler talking about Travel to Sicily.

Madeline talks about her misconceptions about what being a tour guide would be like and the reality of keeping a group of people happy (and not lost). She guided hiking and biking tours primarily in Italy. What skills do you need to be a successful tour guide? It might not be what you think.


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Show Notes

Italy Beyond the Obvious – Madeline’s blog
Travel to Sicily in Italy – Episode 197
Fort Henry, Ontario
Butterfield and Robinson tours
Italy 2010: activity holiday guide
International Tour Management Institute

Internet Resources

Travel Blog Rankings for January 27, 2010 (Amateur Traveler made the top 50)

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Chris Christensen is the creator of the Amateur Traveler blog and podcast. He has been a travel creator since 2005 and has won awards including being named the "Best Independent Travel Journalist" by Travel+Leisure Magazine.

6 Responses to “The Life of Adventure Travel Tour Guide – Episode 217”

Agagooga

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The Rhine cruise sounds interesting, but I’m sure it’ll cost more than Vietnam…

Agagooga

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Also, since you want people to join the mailing list there should be a link, button or box on the site inviting us to do just that

chris2x

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We ended up deciding on Egypt in November. I will get out the details soon, but it is less expensive for one option than Vietnam.

chris2x

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There is a link to get on the mailing list under the “subscribe for free”, too subtle then?

Agagooga

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Egypt is cheaper than Vietnam? o_0

Oh, I always thought that was about subscribing to the podcast only. Yes it is too subtle – your podcast is the primary product of this site, after all!

chris2x

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Yes, the big reason that we will have a cheaper option for Egypt is we are working to choose options to keep the cost down because of what we learned with the Vietnam tour.

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