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Telling People Where to Go

3/23/2018

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Telling People Where to Go
 
Boy, do I like to do that!!  I can bark orders with the best of them! It just dawned on me that I have been experiencing telling others "where to go" for a very long time!

Grayline Bus Tours

​For as long as I can remember, (yes that is a long time), I’ve been directing people where to go.  And by that I mean—what highway, what by-way, what tourist attraction, and what bus to take.
 
During my summers in high school and college, my job was working for Grayline Bus Tours in the Black Hills.  I sat at a desk in numerous hotel lobbies in Rapid City. Some summers I also drove to other motels and touched base with them about Grayline Tours and brochures.. 

It was at the height of the tourism ‘years’ that our tour busses were packed full.  It was a great time to be in tourism. We had buses going to the Southern Hills and to the Northern Hills and then three times a week to the Passion Play in Spearfish.  I worked hard talking to customers and making it easy and convenient for them to get a tour and inform them about what they would be visiting by bus or by their own transportation.  Oh, the questions that came up--I could have written a book! 
 
I’ll Be Their Guide
 
Another job I had during this time was working at a very large campground in Rapid City at the time.  It was when Holiday Inn’s had campgrounds and I worked the desk, helping tourists.  Those were the best times and I loved my jobs.  It came easy for me to guide them on a map and tell there what sites they needed to see.  The Holiday Inn Trav’L Park had over 200 sites for camping and that did not include tenting space.  There were times that we needed overflow too as the tourism business was booming.
 
Family and friends had always come out to the Hills when I was growing up.  There would be discussions as to what to go see and how to make several days of it, and how to make those destination stops. It continued on into my adult years-- what tourist attractions to go to and what not to miss or any special events going on that we wanted to be sure to visit. Even my father  and uncle, during their college years, drove tour buses in the hills. 

It’s In My Blood…

I LOVE guiding people and making sure they get to the sites they want to see, or even sites they had no idea about. There are many times that I wish I had gone into tourism as a profession, but now I get the best of all worlds.  I get to work on the economic and community development side in our state, rural countryside, and I also help others through Travel Backroads . 
 
Via my online directory, I am wanting to help tourists and weekend travelers find their destination and business, or a service that they should know about.  Some people want me to sample a business's chicken, or pie.  I love knowing that and enjoy marketing businesses and services. My problem is there is only one of me and thousands of businesses. But I believe I have a service to offer and it IS of VALUE.
 
I care more than many about local business, I believe that. I will do what it takes to help others know how to find my customers' business. My directory is just getting it’s “feet wet” and we're off and running.

…It Does Comes Natural to Me! 

Let's do this! 
​Joan

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10/26/2018 10:06:53 am

An impressive share, I just given this onto a colleague who was doing a little analysis on this. And he in fact bought me breakfast because I found it for him.. smile. So let me reword that: Thnx for the treat! But yeah Thnkx for spending the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love reading more on this topic. If possible, as you become expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more details? It is highly helpful for me. Big thumb up for this blog post!
There are certainly a lot of details like that to take into consideration. That is a great point to bring up. I offer the thoughts above as general inspiration but clearly there are questions like the one you bring up where the most important thing will be working in honest good faith. I don?t know if best practices have emerged around things like that, but I am sure that your job is clearly identified as a fair game. Both boys and girls feel the impact of just a moment?s pleasure, for the rest of their lives.


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