Designing Personalized Tours Becoming Popular Occupation
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本文来自 China Daily
Working as a personal itinerary designer-tailoring tours to an individual traveler's demands has become a popular job as customized travel catches on in China.
Customized travel is a tour product that includes services such as consultancy before the trip and hotel reservations and butler service during the trip.
Tan Jie, deputy general manager of the self-guided travel department at China CYTS Tours in Beijing, said the company had seen customized travel products grow from 11 percent of its business in 2016 to 26 percent last year.
Xiang Min, a 31-year-old from central China's Hunan province, chose to be an itinerary designer in 2016 after working as a tour guide for three years.
"I learned tourism at college and then worked as a tour guide after graduation," she said.
"I want to give more to the customers, provide a more interesting experience at the destination and also a human touch during the trip."
Xiang said customized travel is quite different from traditional tours.
"The traditional product is a kind of standardized one, while a customized tour is more private and diversified, designed on the basis of the traveler's hobbies and demands."
She said an itinerary designer is responsible for one-stop services for travelers before and during the trip, and also needs to review the trip afterward.
"It's really important for the designer to keep learning about the destination and create travel plans that consider the customer's requests," she said.
Itinerary designers also enjoy higher pay than tour guides, according to a report by Ctrip in July based on a survey of the more than 6,000 designers registered with its platform.
Young people born since 1995 accounted for nearly 35 percent of those surveyed, with the report saying they were attracted to the job because of their passion and curiosity about new professions and new ways of traveling.