Tourist Guides help both French and foreign visitors discover and appreciate France’s cultural heritage.

In order to succeed in their profession, tourist guides must acquire and master a wide variety of skills.

For example, they must have a profound understanding of French culture and a deep knowledge of French history, as well as familiarity with art history, geography, ethnography, economics, and so on. Guides must be able to evoke the meanings and traditions of both France’s past and present, and be able to express themselves fluently in one or more foreign languages.

Guides also have to develop specialties in relation to their university studies or work experience: local or regional knowledge, wine, geology, flora and fauna, etc.

Human and relationship qualities, along with the ability to teach and inform, also play an important role. Guides must always demonstrate their availability, their willingness to adapt to the needs, age and culture of their visitors. The ability to mediate and communicate, along with a strong knowledge of their visitors’ culture are essential to the tourist guides.

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