Love sharing stories and bringing places to life? If you have a passion for history and culture, being a Tour Guide could be what you’re meant to be.
Tour Guide
Becoming a tour guide can be a great way to meet new people, travel, share incredible experiences and learn more about a culture or place.
Tour guides may take groups on tours around cities or expeditions and adventures in nature, they may guide people around museums and places of cultural or environmental significance. Becoming a guide is often an educational and rewarding experience.
Skills and Attributes
- Excellent communicator
- Great with people
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Curiosity
- Love for culture, nature or history
- Enjoy travelling

Study Paths
- College of Cape Town:
National Certificate: Tourism Guiding
Duration: 1 Year - Boston Media Campus:
Higher Certificate in Tourism and Travel Management Practice
Duration 1 – 3 Years

Salary Range
R 10,000 to R 20,000 per month
R120,000 to R 240,000 per year.