Getting Hired as a Ski Tour Guide
So how do you pluck one of these fun jobs? Talk it up around the resort. Ask anyone in an official jacket which guide services operate on the mountain.
In Whistler, there are four or five local guiding enterprises in addition to the tour companies and Ski Esprit.
Find out if large travel planners bring groups to the resort - there's a good chance they require a local guide service.
Each applicant at Whistler goes through a three-day course; one day on each mountain with experienced instructors and one day in class. They study avalanche safety, accident scenarios, all-around mountain safety, and information about the valley - its history and development as a resort. Perhaps most importantly, they're taught how to present themselves professionally.
There are more than 100 adventure tour operators listed on the Internet. Moguls Ski and Sun Tours is one of them. All Adventure Travel is another. All Adventure Travel is a wholesaler with over 1,000 soft adventure vacation packages and itineraries.
Moguls is a member of SKITOPS, the Ski Tour Operators Association. The twenty-four members of SKITOPS did nearly $90 million in ski tour sales in the 1993-94 season for a total of 434,000 skier days. It can be reached at the following address:
SKITOPS
PO Box 3158
Englewood, CO 80155-3158
Travel agents are another good source of travel wholesalers.
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