Open Letter Time Again
Dear Walking Tour Guy:
Doing food and walking tours is an art and gift. Perhaps this is more of something you are born with and less of something you learn. However, here’s a few tips for your career as you go forward.
- Know more about the food and the places you are going than your group. It may help you answer the questions and perhaps have people less likely to want to walk off your tour.
- When given an opportunity to be reviewed by a German Tourist writer, perhaps sucking up to him to the point of turning your back on everyone else in the group would not be the best idea. It is a tough tour when the German writer is funnier than you are.
- Get a bigger script. You mentioned that everything in the buildings is imported except the glass THREE times. Perhaps you need more stuff to talk about.
- If you go somewhere without food — like a church perhaps — kindly explain why we are there — I kept wondering if we were going to taste the wafers.
- When asked REPEATLY if this tour would be ok for a small child, don’t get greedy and say yes, when you in fact hate small children; will ignore the child and the mother of the child.
- Finally, if because of number 5, the mother and child leave the tour at stop number 3 — you should NEVER charge her family FULL rate for her. Yes, she will be contacting you directly for a refund.
Have a delightful day and I hope this helps you in future tours.
The Queen