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Increasing Your Optional Excursion Sales
"I toned down my sales pitch after my first few years . . . Honestly, I was tired of passengers apologizing profusely and making excuses for not going on an excursion that I told them about. I thought I might have been overdoing it." (more)

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)

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About This Section
Most of us are on the road to earn a living.  The purpose of this section is to highlight the best tips and advice for finding work and for maximizing your income while on the road. 

We hope that some of you will contribute articles.  Here are some examples of possible topics:

  • Preparing Resumes
  • Obtaining Interviews
  • Back to Back verses Freelancing
  • Leading your own tours
  • Comparing different companies
  • Tipping
  • Optional Excursions
  • Strategies and tools for earning more on the road

In the future, we are also planning to provide information about tour companies and tips for working with them.

If you have something to contribute, submit it to the forum called the "Knowledge Base."   Simply start a new thread with your article.  If the article is appropriate we will highlight it and link to it here.  You can also continue the conversation started by articles highlighted here by following the links and posting a reply.

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