Tour Leader – CEO

🕒 May 26

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G Adventures

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1990

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-02

Travel

G Adventures is a leader in small group adventure travel, offering a variety of tours and travel experiences across multiple continents including North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Antarctica. Established over 30 years ago, the company is dedicated to providing sustainable and responsible travel options that benefit local communities. They offer various travel styles such as solo adventures, family trips, and themed journeys like the National Geographic and Jane Goodall Collections. G Adventures focuses on delivering flexible itineraries, using locally based guides, and ensuring a positive impact through initiatives like Planeterra and G for Good.

📋 Description

• Act as day-to-day guide, interpreter, manager, and organizer of the group • Deal directly with your traveller’s issues and concerns • Maintain the established itinerary as closely as possible • Make and confirm reservations for accommodation, transport and activities as required • Maintain daily expenditure accounts, retain receipts and keep expenses within trip budget • Provide a report for each trip in the required format, if requested • Keep trip notes updated in a standardized format • Train new CEOs as selected, passing on all relevant information • Provide assistance to the regional office when requested • Consistently deliver a high level of customer service and traveller satisfaction • Provide leadership for our travellers and be responsible for their well-being • Continually increase knowledge about region’s culture, religion, current affairs, environment • Have detailed knowledge of hotels, sights, restaurants, transport, souvenirs, prices, etc. • Develop information sources and contacts that can be of assistance when required • Be mindful of potential opportunities for G Adventures, such as new destinations, new CEOs, new markets or ways to improve itineraries • Learn about and understand Planeterra, G Adventures’ non-profit foundation, and it’s relationship with G Adventures

🎯 Requirements

• A love for adventure travel. • A valid ID residency to live in Galapagos Islands. • Naturalist Guide license issued by the Galapagos National Park. • Marine license issued by the Maritime Authority of Ecuador • A valid certificate of competence in O.M.I and issued by the Maritime Authority of Ecuador • A valid certificate of competence in Sufficiency in crowd control, group driving, passenger safety issued by the Maritime Authority of Ecuador. • A valid certificate of competence in Management of crisis and human behaviour. • A valid certificate of competence in training in the protection of ships and seafarers with assigned tasks. • First Aid/CPR certification • Knowledge of basic accounting/budgeting • Extensive knowledge of the history, geography, and culture of Galapagos and Ecuador. • Be able to work/live aboard and/or in island hopping modality • Physical ability to handle treks, luggage, and various active adventures • Previous experience living, travelling, studying or working abroad preferred • Excellent English language skills – both written and spoken • Demonstrated communication and leadership skills • Strong decision making and problem solving skills • Good computer literacy: (Internet, E-mail, Word and Excel) and social media

🏖️ Benefits

• Support via a variety of Team Resource Groups