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Tipping Tips: Suggestions for
leading tours of North America with passengers from
low-tipping countries.
Nothing is more frustrating than giving a tour all you’ve
got -- the passengers love you, maybe they have written poems
about you, they have given you glowing evaluations—and on top
of all this you wind up with really lousy tips. (more)
What are some other jobs that tour
directors can do between tours, in the off season, or once you
get off the road—besides collecting unemployment.
I’ve been a diversity trainer for about three years now. It’s
a very part-time gig for me (more)
INTERESTING
LINKS
Forbes reviews tour companies good enough for the wealthy:
"mention the phrase "organized tour" and
some people recoil, thinking of busloads of gawking tourists
clutching guidebooks, cameras and a check-list of sites."
Tour firm agrees to $14M labor settlement
A group of bus-tour escorts will receive more than $14 million in
the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that alleged that the
escorts should have been paid overtime and retirement benefits by
their Littleton-based employer.
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