Coming Up on Your Left: A Tour Guide's Guidebook

Joemy Wilson takes vacations for a living. As an international tour director, she escorts people to exciting destinations throughout the world and helps make their travel dreams come true. She teams up with local guides, whose job is "to spin stories - stories that entertain, inform, and inspire." In this book, you'll discover the secrets of the great guides, the "cultural ambassadors," who can turn an ordinary vacation trip into a meaningful, life-enriching journey. "Coming Up on Your Left: A Tour Guide's Guidebook" is full of funny, poignant, and inspirational stories from a tourism-industry insider who has traveled with dozens of guides all over the globe.

As an international tour director, Joemy Wilson has escorted eager travelers to dozens of countries on five continents since 1999. She teams up with local guides to help make travelers' dreams come true. As an educator and devoted traveler herself, she is dedicated to the philosophy that tour directors and guides can be powerful cultural ambassadors of good will, making a difference by promoting greater understanding and respect among the world's peoples - all while seeing magnificent sights and having a lot of fun! When not traveling, Joemy enjoys relaxing at home with her husband, reading, cultivating her backyard vegetable garden, scrolling through the hundreds of photos she took on her last trip, and dreaming about where to go next.