Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a tourist guide can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a tourist guide already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Tourist guides assist individuals or groups during travel or sightseeing tours or at places of touristic interest, such as museums, art facilities, monuments and public places. They help people to interpret the cultural and natural heritage of an object, place or area and provide information and guidance in the language of their choice.

Also known as museum guide, palace guide, city guide, castle guide, guide, tour guide.

Service and sales workers 58 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: mountain guide, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
mountain guide 77% covered host/hostess 57% covered tour organiser 46% covered tour operator representative 44% covered travel consultant 41% covered tourist guide You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from tourist guide, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a tourist guide already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A tourist guide needs 24 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • monitor visitor tours information skills
  • assemble visitor supplies handling and moving
  • collect visitor fees management skills
  • inform visitors at tour sites management skills
  • select visitor routes management skills
  • sightseeing information services
  • train guides communication, collaboration and creativity
  • register visitors information skills
  • escort visitors to places of interest assisting and caring
  • manage tourist groups assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a tourist guide does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Tourist guide is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a tourist guide’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.