| If you are reading this, then you are probably planning a | | | | ask yourself. |
| trip to Pompeii. If it is not for you, then it may be for | | | | Well everything and nothing. You see, Pompeii is a |
| someone else. The following information is not just an | | | | world famous tourist destination and has been for |
| opinion, but backed by over 20 years experience in the | | | | more than a century. Since Pompeii is one of the most |
| Travel industry. | | | | visited sites in the Bay of Naples there is also a lot of |
| If you are still reading, then you know that this | | | | demand for guide services. This is coupled with a |
| information is for you. | | | | general lack of opportunity for locals to find work. |
| It is also likely, that you have already begun | | | | This makes the tourism industry here an attractive |
| investigating the options for getting Pompeii. Perhaps | | | | place to earn money if you live here near Pompeii. The |
| you are arriving in the bay of Naples by train, or by | | | | problem is that the lack of enforcement of controls |
| coach or cruise ship. Perhaps even you are | | | | means that someone may claim to be a local guide, |
| researching how to get from Rome to Pompeii. | | | | and yet not really be qualified. It is also possible for |
| One of the characteristics of the local tourism market | | | | someone to have the official qualification, and yet not |
| here where Pompeii is located in the Bay of Naples, is | | | | be very good. |
| that regulation and controls have all but gone out the | | | | I know this, not just because I have been a local guide |
| window. Don't get me wrong, the controls are in place, | | | | for the past 20 years, but because when I organize |
| it is rather the enforcement that is lacking. Then there | | | | conferences here, I need to find qualified guide to work |
| is the effect of the politicians on the economy here in | | | | for me on my events. So I find myself in the same |
| Italy....but that is a whole separate story. | | | | boat constantly, and there are definitely guides that I |
| "But what has this got to do with my tour?" you may | | | | would never hire in a million years. |