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The tour guide revealed it was not his first encounter with the star, having come across him when he used to work at the Cavern Club.
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
“We have thousands of problems and that is the reason why they are in the street. What happened in Zvernec was just the tipping point”, 46-year-old tour guide Arben Kola told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
It was “traumatizing, seeing that stuff on display for so long and then seeing it come down,” said James Ranger, a veteran hotel tour guide and Mission Inn Foundation docent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
But here’s the funny thing: he kind of is the world’s most thorough tour guide.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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
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 addition to its tour-guide duties, the phone’s camera can double as a scanner for both documents and quick-response, or QR, codes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 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
It also frees the reader from the conventions of so much travel writing that rely on crafted novelty or tour-guide knowledge, replacing them with awe and sincerity.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2018
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