How to Ask for Tips as a Tour Guide

Should tour guides ask for a tip?

Is it a bad idea to ask for tips? If you deserve it, people will give you without asking?

As a tour guide, do you ask for tips or do you wait and see if they give you? Watch this video from the channel How to be a tour guide run by Nick Manning and listen to his advice. In this presentation, he walks you through how to ask for tips and how to make money as a tour guide.

Nick is also the author of the book “How to be a tour guide: the essential training manual“, available on Amazon.

A tour guide asking for a tip? Is it a bad practice?

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Now watch this video from an enthusiastic tour guide about closing in tour guiding. Or watch this sample tour guide speech.