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A tour guide who takes Beatles fans around Liverpool told how fans were stunned to see Sir Paul McCartney while waiting at traffic lights.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Historian and tour guide Alistair Heather said the commercialisation of the image in some parts of Glasgow had taken away its original meaning.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
South Korean tour guide Jun Sang-gab, 65, said he hopes that "North Korea opens its economy" and follows China's development model.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
A tour guide who specializes in Americans hosted visitors until April but canceled his last four tours of the season after conditions worsened and travelers grew concerned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
As we walk through McMenamins, Maxine acts like a tour guide.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
Many speeches and even tour-guide presentations start with a reminder that the soil on which the speaker and audience stand was once occupied only by indigenous people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
If you have an out-of-towner along, it’s almost your tour-guide duty to share this spectacle with them.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Writing scripts for his tour-guide job sparked an interest in L.A. history, and drove Davis toward a synthesis of literary, historical and sociopolitical elements that would shape his writing career.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
In the book’s acknowledgments, she and Widmer, who taught for 16 years herself, thank “our many school-teacher and tour-guide friends, who have so generously offered to help us promote our history of New Orleans.”
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2022
The village in Mx was really interesting... according to our tour-guide, the village was destroyed by a flood a while back and then rebuilt.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2018
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