#Blog6 My life in Ruins

***BEING A GREAT TOUR GUIDE AS " GEORGIA"***

               The story (My life in Ruins)  is about the girl name’s “Georgia” Young professor of History of Greece, who currently works as a tour guide for a small company. Among the busy four-day tour of the trips to places of historic vistas, Georgia have to meet the problems and it actively invites many headaches with those her tourists. However, so much heavy storm of problem hit her; she did well as a tour guide. She sometime goes wrong but she can still fix as she dose. She’s such a perfect tour guide who can handle the situation, she kind of nice to everyone even if they don’t and service as good as the tour guide supposed to do.

                In terms of the guide, her commitment to her tourists supervised experience the atmosphere of the famous tourist destinations of the country. And use that knowledge she had as a teacher to help tell the story details the places they live to make trips of these rich quality suitable for tourists who want to experience the real beauty of Greece.

                After the movie we can analyze  important  characteristics of a Tour guide as Georgia ;  Understandable, Punctual,  Friendly,  Knowledgeable, Engaging,  Interactive,  Funny,  Observant,  Good Pacing and   Flexible. Here are the top essentials for a great tour guide.

                In addition, from the movie we can obviously divide the types and characteristics of the tourist below:

-           Incentive tourists: those few lucky individuals, who get a holiday package as a reward from  his company.

-          Health or medical tourist: Those who seek special medical treatment, which is only possible   away from home.

-          Business tourist: Tourist traveling with relation to business.

-          Education tourists: Tourists traveling to a particular place in another town, city or country for   further study in order to improve his or her educational qualification.

-          Adventure tourists: Adventure tourists look for some unusual or bizarre experience.

-          Cultural tourist: These types of tourists travel to experience the essence of assorted cultures.

-          Eco-tourists: Nature loving tourists, who love to go green.

-          Leisure tourist: These tourists want to rejuvenate and revitalize with comfort.

-          Religious tourist: Religious tourist travel to sites of religious significance.

-          Sport and recreation tourist: These sorts of tourists either take active part in or just watch sports events.

-          Backpacking or youth tourist: This group of tourist is of young age and they travel with minimum luggage and on a limited budget.

-          Special Interest Tourist (STI): They nurture particular passion in different things like bird watching.

            

    From the movie and 10 basis of the tour guide I think being guide is a hard thing if I want to be without any empathy and love in profession. To be a good quality tour guide should start with love in career is the most important things, then follow the rule and also have the patience to deal with issues that come up with the situation or tourists.