Tour.Blog 5: Tour Guide & Tourists
in “My Life in Ruins”
My life
in Ruins is a movie about Georgia, a tour guide of Greece. She loves history
and culture and prefers to tell this to tourists, but it occurred to be a
boring tour. Also, mix personalities of tourists made her trouble. Then, she
found out what and how happy tour can be with her tourists.
Basically,
the most important characteristics of tour guide are good personality, speak clearly
and know foreign language, active yourself to learn new knowledge about
everything in that country, know how to explain to attract tourist and
entertaining them, can control yourself, solve tourists problem wisely and good
manner. Georgia is a good tour guide for explain the true and concise history
of Greece, even tourists in film were not interest in history much, but for me,
I love to know about history of each country that I visit, history always
attract me even though it turns out to be boring for others. What Georgia lack
of in the beginning was her entertainment skill. Sometimes, she needed to
change way of explanation, added something funny as Irv, one of her tour guide
advice.
Other
than Tour guide, this film “My life in Ruins” showed the various types of tourists
too. There are tipsy Australians, American couple, difficult marriage couple
and their unhappy daughter, duo women who try to find the right guy, old people,
funny guy who love to tell jokes or a mature tour guide who always exciting. As
you could see that, as you being the tour guide you need to meet with many
kinds of people, and you need to know what they want. Being in the big group
with various people from various countries, there will definitely be the
problem, such as the misunderstanding of culture, tour guide is the most
important person who will be the bridge to connect tourists to foreign country.
Conclusion,
a good tour guide should have a proud of he or she career, a patient, a
faithful and good personality, plus special skills. What I got from this movie “My
Life in Ruins” is you do not need to always serious about giving knowledge, but
try to find how to enjoy yourself as a tour guide, and be happy with your
tourists. Furthermore, you who are a tourist should also respect the country
that you visit, even you are there to relax or study, try to be prepared by
yourself to face with every situation.
Photo credit:http://www.impawards.com/2009/my_life_in_ruins_xlg.html
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