Aspiring adventure travel specialists should seek experience working or volunteering at an adventure travel company.
Adventure travel tour guides must be passionate about sharing their love of nature and knowledge with others. Also, because of the nature of this job, you should be in good physical shape. Other important qualities are maturity, responsibility, and common sense, especially when leading groups of travelers into the relative unknown.
Adventure travel professionals who work in an office developing and selling tours need different personal qualities than those who work in the field. While being an active, outdoorsy person may help you sell tours, working in this branch of adventure travel is not a requirement. Good work ethics, attention to detail, and organizational skills are more significant.
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