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Prestigious museums and sites of national interest will only use Blue Badge tourist guides for their visitors e.g. London Blue Badge guides do the highlights tours for the British Museum and Parliament summer opening.
An increasing number of Blue Badge guides are licensed driver guides offering personalised chauffeur-driven guiding. Their work can vary from antiques tours in the Cotswolds, to looking after foreign journalists and film stars.
Blue Badge tourist guides are frequently used by Destination Management Companies or DMCs to work with their corporate clients on large programmes. Sometimes this work will involve guiding excursions, but often it requires guides to take on the role of a knowledgeable local friend.
Many guides are fluent in more than one language. Indeed, many guides are not native English speakers and work in their own mother tongue e.g. Russian, Japanese or Mandarin.
Apart from guiding, some Blue Badge guides work directly for large companies, creating and operating programmes for conferences, incentive tours and training seminars. Others are involved in training and not only guide training, but for example, teaching presentational skills to personnel in industry. Some run their own lecture courses.
Some guides also run their own tour agencies offering specialist tours for, say, property investors or to Billingsgate for Japanese fishermen – the possibilities are endless. All Blue Badge Tourist Guides are self-employed and can be contacted directly through:
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