We surveyed 3,017 tour guides to learn what personality traits and interests make them unique. Here are the results.


Holland Codes

Tour guides are social and enterprising

Tour guides tend to be predominantly social individuals, meaning that they thrive in situations where they can interact with, persuade, or help people. They also tend to be enterprising, which means that they are usually quite natural leaders who thrive at influencing and persuading others.

If you are one or both of these archetypes, you may be well suited to be a tour guide. However, if you are conventional, this is probably not a good career for you. Unsure of where you fit in? Take the career test now.

Here’s how the Holland codes of the average tour guide break down: