About the Role
Note from FlexJobs Staff: This is a remote job with no office requirement. It does involve extensive travel and working from a remote location.
Title: Bike Tour Travel Guide
Location: Work From Anywhere – Remote
Full Time
Thank you for your interest in Trek Travel Bike Tour Guide position!
We know how to find the perfect roads, boutique accommodations, idyllic towns, delectable meals, and extraordinary experiences. Our bike tour travel guides take the role of making this magic come to life, delivering every piece of this wanderlust dream to our guests with perfection.
Our guides are trained to WOW, provide exceptional customer service, have superior hosting skills, safety focused, natural connectors, culturally aware and involved, fun, passionate, and reliable team players.
This role’s job description is extensive as it is a unique opportunity to see the world by bike. This is a remote position.
So, you want to be a guide? We can’t wait to hear from you!
Trek Travel Guide Compensation & Benefits:
Trek Travel Guide compensation and benefits are standard and competitive within the active travel industry. The following information is relative for all Trek Travel Guides.
Pay & Gratuities:
Guide pay rates are based on an hourly rate that is provided along with contracts/offer letters and handbooks at the start of each season. Hourly rates are individual to each guide and start at $12 an hour. Guides will be paid on a bi-weekly basis. Trek Travel will consider pay increases on an annual basis based on several factors. More information regarding pay will be provided throughout the interview process and within the contract and handbook. In addition to their regular rate of pay, it is customary for Guides to receive gratuities directly from guests. Each guest is encouraged to tip an average of $40-50 per day.
Amount of Work:
Guide earnings depend heavily on the number of trips guided and the amount and type of work performed on each trip. Guides with more availability have a better chance of being scheduled for more work and therefore have a greater chance of earning more income. On average, a full-time Guide will work 10-20 trips (or 100-200) days per peak season (April-October). In most cases, for every 2-3 weeks working, a guide will have 1 week off. Full time guides tend to have priority with scheduled trips since they have full time availability; whereas, part-time guides have scheduled work depending on availability, location and other factors.
In addition to guiding trips, Guides will have the opportunity to perform other paid services, including, but not limited to:
- Bike and equipment maintenance and miscellaneous warehouse work as scheduled
- Driving bikes and equipment between regions
- Updating all Guide & Trip Documents with changes as they occur
- Researching new trips
- Final trip preparation on ground conducted at the beginning of a season prior to running trips in a region
- Familiarization drives of a new region prior to guiding a trip for the first time
- Training and Meeting sessions