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Q: Travel in Mongolia ( Answered 3 out of 5 stars,   2 Comments )
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Subject: Travel in Mongolia
Category: Sports and Recreation > Outdoors
Asked by: cocoa-ga
List Price: $25.00
Posted: 23 Apr 2005 14:50 PDT
Expires: 23 May 2005 14:50 PDT
Question ID: 513223
What does a personal guide in Mongolia earn on a weekly basis?  A
friend of mine will be my guide and
he said he'd do it for nothing and I said, "No, I want to pay you what
the best guide would earn in
Mongolia."  Please give me the answer in American dollars.
Answer  
Subject: Re: Travel in Mongolia
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 23 Apr 2005 18:27 PDT
Rated:3 out of 5 stars
 
The daily fee for a personal tour guide in Mongolia from Selena Travel
is 25-45 USD depending on their working experience, type of the tour
and specialized tours.

Excerpts:

?Selena Travel is operated by the most experienced travel
professionals of Mongolia and aims to fulfill the needs and dreams of
our clients while traveling with us.

As being one of the most promising tour operators of Mongolia, Selena
Travel has 5 years full experience at organizing package tours for
from individuals to large groups and is always the fastest, most
reliable, most experienced and cares each of its customers the best.?

?Many experienced, knowledgeable, effervescent, honest and responsible
tour guides are for your service from Selena Travel. Our guides all
earned "Tour Guide's Certificate" from Mongolian Tourism Board and are
well experienced in their specialized tours.

DAILY PAYMENT FOR GUIDING
25-45 USD according to their working experience, type of the tour and
specialized tours.?

Source: 
Selena Travel Co. Ltd,
Ulaanbaatar-26, Mongolia, 
http://selenatravel.com/other/mongolia_guide.html


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Salary Expert provides a handy tool for locating salaries all over the world.
Enter job title and country and then click search. 
http://www.salaryexpert.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=FreeSalaryTools.Dsp_FreeSalaryTools

The most similar job title for a tour guide is the Guide Establishment.

According to Salary Expert the Guide Establishment would earn
approximately $153 to $229 USD on a weekly basis.

Description of the Guide Establishment:

?Travel and tour guides ensure that travel arrangements made for
clients run smoothly and provide a range of services to enhance the
enjoyment, comfort and safety of passengers.?

?Tasks: receives passengers, checks tickets and conducts them to their
seats, makes announcements to passengers regarding the details of
travel arrangements and deals with any queries, assists with the
booking and transfer of luggage and other items, comments on places of
interest during the journey, makes local arrangements for food and
accommodation at stop over points, responds to enquiries and
complaints, makes arrangements and takes bookings for excursions and
other entertainment, and provides assistance and advice to
holidaymakers.?


?The Guide Establishment working in Mongolia now earns an average
salary of 9,432,866. Half of those in this position would earn between
6,293,608 and 14,136,092 (the 17th and 67th percentiles). These
numbers are derived from real, area specific, survey data.?

Estimates as of 23-Apr-2005.  
Currency in Tugriks ( Annual Salary)

http://www.salaryexpert.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Free_Salary_Intl.Report&job=2473&area=873&Action=Search

I converted these figures to dollars using the following currency converter.
http://www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml

$9,432,866.00 MNT (Mongolia Tugriks) = $7,946. USD
Weekly salary would be approximately $153. USD

$14,136,092.00 MNT (Mongolia Tugriks)	= $11,909. USD
weekly salary would be approximately $229. USD



Search terms:
Tour guide personal OR private Mongolia
Salary OR wage locator Mongolia

I hope this is helpful! 


Search criteria:

Best regards,   
Bobbie7
cocoa-ga rated this answer:3 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $2.00
Quick and thorough!

Comments  
Subject: Re: Travel in Mongolia
From: czh-ga on 24 Apr 2005 01:21 PDT
 
Huh???

Quick and thorough!
Tip of $2.00
cocoa-ga rated this answer: three stars

?????
Subject: Re: Travel in Mongolia
From: saikhanbayar-ga on 13 Oct 2005 04:22 PDT
 
Try asking here.... its mongolian forum....

http://www.mongolforums.com/index.php?showforum=47

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