Tour Leader – South Asia

🕒 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

• 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 your knowledge about the visited country, its culture, religion, current affairs, environment, etc. • Have detailed knowledge of hotels, sights, restaurants, transport, souvenirs, prices, etc. • Develop a series of information sources and contacts that can be of assistance when required. • Maintain a valid passport and visa. • Keep vaccinations and preventive medication up to date. • Be mindful of potential opportunities for G Adventures; such as new destinations, new CEOs, new markets or ways to improve itineraries. • Act as day-to-day guide, interpreter and manager of the group. • Deal directly with your traveller's issues and concerns, ensuring that passenger satisfaction is effectively achieved. • Maintain the established travel itinerary as closely as possible, making changes only when necessary. • Make reservations for accommodation, transportation and activities as required. • Assist and accompany travellers during optional activities and meals. Advise travellers on suitable restaurants, additional transport requirements, purchase of souvenirs, etc. • Maintain daily expenditure accounts, retain receipts and keep expenses within the trip budget provided. • Provide a report for each trip, in the requested format. • Keep the Trip notes updated in the standardized format. • Train new Leaders as requested, passing on as much trip-related information as possible. • Provide assistance to the regional offices when requested by Managers or by the Toronto office.

🎯 Requirements

• A Love for Adventure Travel: We are the Adventure specialists and we only hire CEOs who have a genuine passion for travelling to vibrant, exciting areas of the world. • Previous experience living, travelling, studying or working abroad is an essential requirement for this position. • Able to legally work in South Asia • Language skills: All of G Adventures tours are operated in English so a good command of the English language is mandatory. The region specific language is also very important. • Excellent Leadership and Communication Skills: We look for people who have experience in leadership roles, with a proven ability to communicate effectively in a wide range of contexts. • Resourcefulness: We need CEOs who have a good head on their shoulders, who can remain calm and collected under unpredictable and stressful circumstances. • Awareness of and Commitment to Sustainable Tourism: Our CEOs need to be committed to environmentally and culturally responsible tourism, and be an inspiring example to the travelers. • Good Health and High Energy Level: It may seem obvious but we need CEOs who can always handle the daily stresses, both mental and physical, of long and tiring days. • First Aid/CPR Certification: CEOs must be prepared to act in case of emergency. • Transportation to your training location: It is the CEO's responsibility to get him or herself to the starting point of the training trip. • Background in basic accounting/budgeting: Experience working with budgets or developing a personal budget is an asset. • Computer literacy: A working knowledge of the Internet, E-mail, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel is essential.

🏖️ Benefits

• G Adventures is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment • Support via a variety of Team Resource Groups