A Research of a Career of a Travel Guide

Travel guides are continually needed more as the travelling as a business grows. This Bache-lor’s thesis focuses on researching knowledge of a career of a professional travel guide. In the research the main focus points are the executed interviews in order to accomplish the targets set by the principal of the thesis. The commissioner for this research is a Finnish tour organ-izer Finntours. As the competition between tour organizers grows within the industry it is cru-cial to research the differences in recruiting an employee and whether there is something to improve. The objective of the research is to offer information of the current situation with regards to knowledge of the career of a professional travel guide, and hopefully to offer im-provement ideas for the future. The theoretical part of the thesis consists of information concerning the tour organizers which is essential for the research as well as a central theory concerning the work of a professional travel guide. The introduction of the tour organizers is presented to clarify to the reader the main actors of the business as they play a major role in the research. As the work of a guide is under research, the theory of the nature of work has to be examined more carefully. The research methods were collecting data from Internet sources and carrying out two them