• Position Type: Full Time
  • Location: Banff, AB
  • Employer Type: Business
  • Application Deadline: 2025-06-21
  • Job ID: 24102
  • Job Category: Hospitality
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Banff Guide Service

Tour guide
Banff Guide Service

Location: Banff, AB
Salary: $19.00 hourly for 30 hours per week
Vacancies: 3 Vacancies
Employment groups: Youth, Persons with disabilities, Indigenous people, Newcomers to Canada
Terms of Employment: Seasonal (7-month contract), Full time
Expected Start Date: April 1, 2025
Benefits: Medical benefits, Commission, Gratuities
Employment conditions: Day, Evening, Overtime, Weekend

Qualifications:
– Ability to communicate in English and in Japanese orally and in writing is required;
– No degree, certificate or diploma is required;
– No specific credentials are required;
– No previous experience as a tour guide is required.(Training will be provided.)

Job Duties:
– Confirm transportation and accommodation reservations;
– Explain the policy and regulation of Banff National Park to Japanese tourists;
– Provide information about the history, geological features, ecology, glacier, and diversity of Banff National Park;
– Utilize microphones or other communication devices;
– Resolve itinerary and other problems by communicating with Japanese tourists in Japanese;
– Attend to hotel, train and other check-in and check-out procedures;
– Provide information on tipping customs, currency exchange rates, metric conversion and other details for Japanese tourists who are unfamiliar with these customs;
– Provide information about gift shops, restaurants, horse riding tours, and float trips and make reservations for Japanese tourists if requested;
– Co-ordinate recreation activities;
– Co-ordinate activities with local tour guides;
– Assist clients with special needs.

Other Information:
– Work Site Environment: Outdoors;
– Work setting: Various locations;
– Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities: You are expected to effectively deal with tight deadlines and repetitive tasks with attention to detail; Tour guide is physically demanding, e.g. standing for extended periods, walking, bending, crouching, and kneeling;
– Type of Guide: Step-on local guide;
– Tours Focus: Sightseeing, Walking tours, Bus tours;
– Geographical Areas of Specialization: Canada;
– Number of Tours Guided: 10 tours and +;
– Transportation/ Travel Information: Travel expenses will be paid by employer;
– Work Location Information: Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, Calgary Airport as well as various locations in the province of Alberta including rural area and remote locations depending on tours provided;
– Job location: 201 Lynx Street, Banff, AB T1L 1K5.

How to apply:
By email: [email protected]

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