A Guides Blog

Right now we are in the midst of an international health and upcoming economical crisis. Not only is this situation hitting hard on the health of millions of people and their anxieties and lives, but it also puts tourism in front of a very troubling development. Never has tourism just stopped for weeks, months or not even to speak of a whole year. This means losses for the big tourism players and airline but more over it means no work for people involved in tourism, such as guides all around the world. Being a guide means not having a fixed workplace, which now results in being weeks, months maybe even a year without payment. It makes it necessary to think further, to look for other employments and makes the risk of working like this evident to us.  Being focused on one industry only makes it harder in times like these, when there is no tourism and there will be no tourism for quite some time. The good thing is, since we are always on the move and travelling most hav...

I guess in our world as globalized as it is, there are a lot people that do not see only one city or country as their home anymore. They have a partner from abroad or even migrated themselves. Here the term: Home is where your heart is does not work that easily anymore. Yes, home is where your heart is, but this is no single place anymore. As for me, if home is where my heart is, home is in different places. Home is where my parents are in Germany, where my best friends live all over Europe, Cameroon,   Mexico and the rest of the world. So here is my point: home is for me the whole world, not every single place but there are sufficient different locations to make it easier to call it the world than name all the specific places. We, as people, started with the digitalization and globalization to travel and move around the globe and visit all kinds of places. There a broad spectrum of ways to do so, there is tourism, exchange years, seasonal workers and so on. The differen...